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    Journal Articles & Books
    February, 2019
    Qatar, 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

    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.

  2. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    November, 2018
    Egypt, Bangladesh, United States of America, Micronesia, Peru, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Malawi, Jordan, Uganda, Turkmenistan, Somalia, Uzbekistan, Netherlands, Senegal, Burundi, Chile, Azerbaijan, Australia, New Zealand, Nepal, South Sudan

    Access to safe water and sanitation and sound management of freshwater ecosystems are at the very core of sustainable development. This is the aim of Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6), which includes approaches to water management supported by international cooperation, capacity building and stakeholder participation.<p></p><p></p>Indicator 6.4.1 has been designed to assess the economic and social use of water resources in terms of the value added when they are used in different sectors of the economy.

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    Journal Articles & Books
    February, 2018
    Jordan, Sweden, Greece, United States of America, Italy

    This report constitutes part of the project GCP/JOR/018/SWI: “Reduce vulnerability in Jordan<p></p>in the context of water scarcity and increasing food/energy demand” project, funded by the<p></p>Swiss Agency for Development and Corporation (SDC).<p></p>The objective of this report is to address project output 4: “Prepared appropriate long-term<p></p>policy, regulatory and institutional frameworks to facilitate the adoption and scale-up of the<p></p>three-pronged approach and integrate it within national food-water-energy related p

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    Journal Articles & Books
    November, 2018
    Uganda, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Lesotho, South Africa, Senegal, Togo, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Suriname, Cambodia, Bangladesh, Jordan, Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Micronesia

    Access to safe water and sanitation and sound management of freshwater ecosystems are at the core of sustainable development. This is the aim of Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6), which includes approaches to water management such as environmental flow requirements, international cooperation, capacity building and stakeholder participation.


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    Journal Articles & Books
    October, 2018
    Egypt, United States of America, Israel, Azerbaijan, Denmark, Italy, Syrian Arab Republic, Jordan, Netherlands, Russia, Lebanon

    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 Jordan 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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    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2015
    Bangladesh, Switzerland, United States of America, Mali, Zimbabwe, China, Indonesia, Australia, Canada, Benin, Malawi, Thailand, Jordan, Morocco, Philippines, India, Mexico, Brazil

    本指南阐述如何对世界粮食安全的几种主要作物, 即玉米、稻米和小麦 , 实际应用粮农组织的作物生产可持续集约化 "节约与增长" 模式 。书中列举非洲 、亚洲和拉丁美洲的事例 , 阐明以生态系统为基础的耕作系统如何帮助小农提高谷物单产 , 改善生计 , 减少对环境的压力 , 增强对气候变化的抵御能力 。本指南将成为决策者和发展工作者在实现全球向可持续粮食和农业转型过程中的宝贵参考手册。

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    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2015
    Bangladesh, Switzerland, United States of America, Mali, Zimbabwe, China, Australia, Canada, Benin, Malawi, Thailand, Jordan, Philippines, Uganda, India, Mexico, Brazil

    В настоящем руководстве описано практическое применение предложенной ФАО модели устойчивой интенсификации растениеводства “Сохранить и приумножить” к возделыванию кукурузы, риса и пшеницы – культур, имеющих ключевое значение для продовольственной безопасности в мире.

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    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2005
    Egypt, Spain, Israel, Germany, Sri Lanka, Australia, Eswatini, Canada, Ethiopia, Pakistan, France, Thailand, Jordan, Cyprus, Philippines, Turkey, Italy, Syrian Arab Republic, Netherlands, India, Georgia, Saudi Arabia, Austria

    The IPTRID programme is a multi-donor trust fund managed by the IPTRID Secretariat as a Special Programme of FAO. The Secretariat is located in the Land and Water Development Division of FAO and draws on a worldwide network of leading centres of excellence in the field of irrigation, drainage and water resources management. IPTRID aims to support capacity development for sustainable agricultural water management to reduce poverty, enhance food security and improve livelihoods, while conserving the environment.

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