Water - Source of food security. World Food Day: 16 October 2002.<p></p>Water and food security are intimately connected. Many of the over 800 million people in the world who still go hungry live in water-scarce regions. When FAO launched its Special Programme for Food Security in 1994, it was well aware that limited access to water was often a major constraint to increasing food production.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksFebruary, 2019Qatar, Bangladesh, Honduras, United States of America, Germany, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Jordan, Tanzania, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Netherlands, Iraq, China, India, Iran, Philippines, Nicaragua, Italy, United Arab Emirates, Malta, Brazil, Global
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksAugust, 2018Algeria, Qatar, Egypt, Malta, Jordan, Libya, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Mauritania, Iraq, Iran, Djibouti, Morocco, Yemen, Turkey, Oman, Syrian Arab Republic, United Arab Emirates, Tunisia, Sudan, Bahrain
Fragility has become the reality in several countries of the Middle East and North Africa. Armed conflict and forced displacement are taking an enormous toll on human lives, with the region accounting for about 60 percent of the estimated global total of battle-related casualties since the turn of the millennium. Conflicts and fragility have also had negative economic impacts, with countries directly affected by conflict such as Syria and Yemen losing as much as half of their pre-war GDP.
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksJune, 2018Algeria, Qatar, Egypt, Morocco, Yemen, Tunisia, Syrian Arab Republic, Libya, Iraq, Turkey, Oman, Jordan, Mauritania, Cyprus, United Arab Emirates, Iran, Kuwait, Sudan, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon
The report assesses the occurrence and impacts of drought, the current policies underlying drought management as well as the mitigation measures and responses adopted in the Near East and North Africa region, with a focus on the Agriculture Sector.
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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 ResourceJournal Articles & BooksOctober, 2018France, Iraq, Turkey, Jordan, Italy, Syrian Arab Republic, Netherlands, Iran, Saudi Arabia
This river basin overview describes the state of the water resources and water use, as well as the state of agricultural water management in the Euphrates-Tigris basin. The aim of this report is to describe the particularities of this transboundary river basin and the problems met in the development of the water resources, and irrigation in particular.
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2002Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco, Iran, Pakistan, Egypt, Mexico
Meeting symbol/code: FAO-RNE--ALAWUC/NE/02/REP
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 2003Algeria, Qatar, Egypt, Iran, Mauritania, Iraq, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Morocco, Malta, Djibouti, Pakistan, Jordan, Cyprus, Libya, Turkey, Kyrgyzstan, Somalia, Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain, Lebanon
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2002Cyprus, Jordan, Morocco, Iran, Pakistan, Egypt, Mexico
Session: Sess. 2
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Library ResourceJournal Articles & BooksDecember, 1997Algeria, Qatar, Egypt, Iran, Mauritania, Iraq, Afghanistan, Morocco, Malta, Djibouti, Pakistan, Jordan, Cyprus, Libya, Kyrgyzstan, Somalia, Oman, Italy, Kuwait, Sudan, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon
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Library ResourceReports & ResearchDecember, 2010Qatar, Jordan, Iraq, Somalia, Egypt, Syrian Arab Republic, Iran, Sudan, Bahrain
Meeting symbol/code: ALAWUC/NE/10
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