Building resilience faster: FAO’s work on water
19/08/2022
World Water Week 2022 is an opportunity to browse through a list of FAO publications highlighting the Organization’s work to promote coherent approaches to sustainable land and water management.
The State of the World's Land and Water Resources for Food and Agriculture (SOLAW) 2021
This report highlights the major risks and trends related to soil, land and water and presents means of resolving competition among users and generating multiple benefits for people and the environment. A synthesis report is available in all official UN languages as well as in a device-friendly format.
These guidelines are intended to assist countries in understanding the agronomic parameters involved in the computation of the agricultural component of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicator 6.4.1 on the change in water use efficiency over time. They provide a detailed explanation of the calculation process for calculation by countries willing to generate a more accurate estimation using their national data.
The UN World Water Development Report (WWDR)
The 2022 edition of the UN WWDR, titled “Groundwater: Making the invisible visible”, describes the challenges and opportunities associated with the development, management and governance of groundwater throughout the world.
WaPOR, remote sensing for water productivity publications
A collection of assessments produced under the WaPOR project, FAO’s portal to monitor Water Productivity through Open-access of Remotely sensed derived data, that assists countries in monitoring water productivity, identifying gaps, proposing solutions to reduce these gaps and contributing to a sustainable increase of agricultural production.
Integrated drought management to build resilience - publications
FAO collaborates with partners such as the UNCCD, WMO and UN-Water to support countries to shift to proactive drought management, thus increasing the resilience of livelihoods to threats and crises. The knowledge resources span the pillars of the integrated drought management, including publications on drought risk mitigation and financing for drought.
Further reading
- Accounting for livestock water productivity: how and why?
- A guide to forest–water management
- Can water productivity improvements save us from global water scarcity? – WASAG white paper
- Guidance on realizing real water savings with crop water productivity interventions
- Smart Irrigation – Smart WASH: solutions in response to the pandemic crisis in Africa
- Progress on change in water-use efficiency - Global status and acceleration needs for SDG indicator 6.4.1
- Progress on level of water stress - Global status and acceleration needs for SDG indicator 6.4.2
- Sustainable management of freshwater resources for food and nutrition security in Small Island Developing States
- The AquaCrop model – Enhancing crop water productivity
- Water, sanitation, hygiene (WASH) and wastewater management to prevent infections and reduce the spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR)
- Water Productivity, the yield gap and nutrition – The case of Ethiopia
- Nature-positive agriculture and natural resources management
Forthcoming
- Resilient Watershed Manager's Handbook
- Water governance analysis (water auditing). A methodological guide
- A multi-criteria assessment framework for national drought planning
- UNCCD COP 15 through the lens of drought
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