The project will support to the rehabilitation of solar groundwater irrigation-pumping systems in the regained areas. Support will be provided to increase water productivity for irrigated agriculture and promote sustainable water management practices. The farming community in target areas will have improved access to irrigation water.

The El Salvador country office of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), with the support of the Mesoamerica Hunger Free Program, helped to develop community and family Rainwater Harvesting Systems (SCALL in Spanish) to mitigate the effects of the drought facing the central American dry corridor.

The year-long project was implemented between Oct 2019 to Dec 2020. This project is part of the Next Generation Irrigation and Water Management for the Asia-Pacific Program (NextGen. Program), an AWP-FAO program aimed at modernizing Asia’s irrigation systems and water management practices.

The project identified four areas that limit progress towards a sustainable rural sector: i) low irrigation water efficiency; ii) limited technical assistance services for family farmers; iii) scarce statistical information on the problem of small-scale livestock farming, and iv) the absence of an updated policy framework for the sustainable development of fishing and aquaculture activities.

This publication supports processes related to rural communities’ resilience in implementing land restoration of the Great Green Wall Programme on the ground. It serves a dual purpose of consolidating biophysical operations and socioeconomic assessments, and is mainly built on five-year interventions and practical experiences gathered through the FAO- Action Against Desertification (AAD) project.

The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture aims to provide objective, reliable and up-to-date information to a wide audience – policymakers, managers, scientists, stakeholders and indeed everyone interested in the fisheries and aquaculture sector.

In one of the world’s great rivers, the Mekong River, the GEF Trust Fund is investing in the invisible: its groundwater. A new 15 million USD project, led by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), bringing the transboundary Cambodia - Mekong River Delta Aquifer in lower Mekong into the spotlight, was developed and is soon to be approved.

Capacity development is a key element to enhance knowledge on the concept of water productivity and skills on the use of the WaPOR portal, to provide governments and farmers with the appropriate tools to support decisions and targeted interventions on more efficient water use.

Webinar: Saline Agriculture - Scaling up Opportunities and Challenges The Global Framework on Water Scarcity in Agriculture (WASAG) hosted by the FAO Land and Water Division held its second webinar on Saline Agriculture titled "Saline Agriculture: Scaling up Opportunities and Challenges".

In response to the growing needs of member countries and to help them cope with this enormous challenge, FAO and partners launched in 2013 the Regional Water Scarcity Initiative in the Near East and North Africa. The first output of the Initiative was a Regional Collaborative Strategy (RCS) on Sustainable Agricultural Water Management.