Food and agricultural systems are under a set of pressures to feed an increasingly hungry population and to cope with an intensifying competition over natural, human and financial resources, all subject to impacts of climate change.
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Library ResourceInstitutional & promotional materialsNovember, 2018
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Library ResourceInstitutional & promotional materialsNovember, 2018
This fact sheet describes the following e-learning course: This course focuses on water management and its critical role in climate-smart agriculture. It analyses the impacts of climate change on the availability of freshwater resources for agriculture and considers possible water management options for adaptation to climate change and for climate change mitigation.
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Library ResourceInstitutional & promotional materialsDecember, 2015Nepal, Vietnam, Germany, Cambodia
A brief summary of the emergency drought situation with news from FAOVN field office.
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Library ResourceInstitutional & promotional materialsNovember, 2018Egypt
This flyer introduces the project on "Support sustainable water management and irrigation modernization for newly reclaimed areas", its purpose and activities. It will be distributed in workshops, meetings, conferences, etc. Hence, the general public including media would be able to know about the project and will become interested in its activities.
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Library ResourceInstitutional & promotional materialsDecember, 2016Nepal, Philippines, Myanmar, Cambodia, Guinea, Thailand
The Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific (RAP) has now in place its Gender Strategy and Action Plan 2017-2019. Building on the corporate Policy on Gender Equality (2012) and the spirit of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, the Strategy provides new focus to gender-related work in the region and identifies main delivery mechanisms for the next three years.
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Library ResourceInstitutional & promotional materialsAugust, 2018Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger, Africa
Au Sahel, le changement climatique accentue l’irrégularité des pluies et les chocs climatiques, tels que les sécheresses répétées et les inondations. Les conséquences sont désastreuses pour les ménages ruraux les plus pauvres, qui peinent à y faire face et voient leur vulnérabilité s’accentuer. Les femmes sont généralement les plus touchées.
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Library ResourceInstitutional & promotional materialsSeptember, 2018Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Jordan, Iran, Lebanon
The NENA region already exposed to chronic shortage of water will face in the coming decades a severe intensification of water scarcity due to several drivers, including demographic growth and its related food demands, urbanization, energy demand and overall socio-economic development. Furthermore, NENA is experiencing more frequent, intense extreme events (in particular droughts) as a consequence of climate change.
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Library ResourceInstitutional & promotional materialsFebruary, 2018
This course provides tools, methods and processes to support countries in monitoring and reporting on SDG Indicator 6.4.2 “Level of water stress: freshwater<p></p>withdrawal in percentage of available freshwater resources“.
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Library ResourceInstitutional & promotional materialsNovember, 2018Burkina Faso, Morocco, Uganda, Mali, Africa
This brief constitutes part of the GCP/INT/231/SWI project “Strengthening Agricultural Water Efficiency and Productivity on the African and Global Level”, funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Corporation (SDC). It is the second technical brief to illustrate (i) the project rationale; (ii) the pilot sites selected for implementation; (iii) the tools employed; (iv) the timeframe and the scaling up process; (v) the effective stakeholders and beneficiaries.
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Library ResourceInstitutional & promotional materialsMarch, 2019Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Israel, Chile, Peru, Australia, Tunisia, Argentina, Pakistan, Mexico, Lebanon
This document describes combating desertification through the use of unconventional water resources.
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