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UN-Water Key Water Indicator Portal
Making best water data available to all |
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 UN-Water has recognized the need to provide a means through which reporters, policy makers, researchers, and the general public alike can find the most updated information on water in a simple, user-friendly format.
Responding to this need, this portal provides one location where users can access the best water data available.
This portal is backed by a federated database containing data from several UN agencies and is implemented by AQUASTAT of FAO. |
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En route to Rio+20: expectations
Audio interviews during the Land and Water Days at FAO |
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 Sustainable production systems that make efficient use of resources like water, land, and energy must become the basis of tomorrow's economy.
Experts attending the Land and Water Days at FAO on 7-11 May 2012 talked about the Rio+20 Conference and their expectations regarding agriculture and natural resources. |
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Land and Water Days at FAO: Improving the impact of field projects
7-11 May, Rome, Italy |
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 FAO will host the Land and Water Days on 7-11 May, organized in collaboration with the other Rome-based UN Agencies - IFAD and WFP. On this occasion, FAO, IFAD and WFP professionals involved in land and water related projects at headquarters, in the regions and in the field, together with their technical partners, will address the technologies, approaches and modalities that can improve the impact of field projects.
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Rio+20 Conference: water, energy and food security
Rethink the way we grow, share and consume food |
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| Across the world, agriculture faces complex challenges: producing more food, feed and fibers while using less water and less land; adapting to climate change; contributing to climate change mitigation and clean energy supply; providing rural people with resources and opportunities to live a healthy and productive life; and applying clean technologies that ensure environmental sustainability. |
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There are many ways to address growing water scarcity for food and agriculture. But the billions of farmers who feed the world must be at the centre of the process of change.
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World Water Day 2012: Offical Ceremony
Graziano da Silva: "Much more needs to be done" |
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Land and Water Discussion Paper:
Monitoring agricultural
water use at country level |
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This report summarizes the results and lessons of the project “Strengthening national water monitoring capacities, with emphasis on agricultural water management”. The project was implemented in two African countries, Benin and Ethiopia, and worked for two years with specialists in key stakeholder institutions to establish an information system on agricultural water management based on
AQUASTAT, FAO’s information system on water and agriculture.
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| Promotional Material: 2012 FAO Desktop Calendar |
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The June 2012 desktop calendar is now available!
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| Water reports: Climate Change, water and food security |
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This report summarizes current knowledge of the anticipated impacts of climate change on water availability for agriculture and examines the implications for local and national food security. It analyses expected impact of climate change on a set of major agricultural systems at risk and makes the case for immediate implementation of 'no-regrets' strategies which have both positive development outcomes and make agricultural systems resilient. It is hoped that policy makers and planners can use this report to frame their adaptation responses when considering both the water variable in agriculture and the competing demands from other users.
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| Publication: Guidelines on spate irrigation |
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Spate irrigation has evolved over the centuries and provided rural populations in arid and semi-arid regions with an ingenious way to manage their scarce water resources. It is different from conventional irrigation in many ways and therefore needs special skills and approaches that address the unpredictability and magnitude of spate floods, their high sediment load, and the associated water rights and management models.
The objective of this publication is to assist planners and practitioners in designing and managing spate irrigation projects looking at the hydrology, the engineering, the agronomy, local organizations and rules, wadi basin management and economics. It is designed to be both a practical guidance document and a source of information and examples, based extensively on experience from across the world in places where spate irrigation is practiced.
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| Water at a
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A brief introduction
to some of the issues facing FAO Water including
the relationship between water, agriculture, food
security and poverty. The reader will also learn
about effective ways of managing agricultural water. |
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