Southern Africa is particularly susceptible to climate variability and drought and is increasingly being threatened by desertification processes, degradation of land and water resources and loss of biodiversity. Although rainfed farming is a high-risk enterprise, it is also a way of life and people are committed to making the best of the scarce resources at their disposal. However, droughts tend to reduce production to below the already marginal levels, thus threatening subsistence farming.

Supporting capacity development for sustainable agricultural water management The International Programme for Technology and Research in Irrigation and Drainage (IPTRID) 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.

Cette note d’information couvre vingt années de collecte et d’analyse de données sur l’eau et de diusion de ces statis - tiques en tant que bien public international, librement accessible à tous. La principale base de données par pays sur les ressources en eau et leur utilisation – dont la présentation de façon uniforme constitue en soi un dé majeur – sert de plateforme pour l’utilisation et la présentation de plus de 180 variables et indicateurs qui peuvent être recherchés et extraits pour tous les pays et diérentes régions sur une longue période de temps.

This Synthesis Paper is based on an Expert Meeting held in Rome 26 to 28 February 2008 as a preparation for the FAO High Level Conference (HLC) on World Food Security and the Challengesof Climate Change and Bioenergy in June 2008. The paper contains appraisal of the implications of the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (AR4-IPCC) for agricultural water management and, based on that evidence, offers a more operationally focused diagnosis.

Télécharger le livre complet, Produire plus avec moins en pratique La publication est disponible seulement en anglais.

The MASSMUS application presented here has been initialized through a MASSCOTE training workshop in Karnataka for engineers and managers from the KJBNL focussing on Upper Krishna Project in 2009. The contributions of participants made during the working group sessions at this workshop have been largely included in this report.

The Masscote application presented here has been initialized through a training workshop in Karnataka for engineers and managers from the KNNL focussing on Ghataprabha Left Bank Canal [GBLC] from 6 to 20 October 2006. The contributions of the working group sessions at this workshop (RAP–MASSCOTE) have been largely included in this report.

حمّل التقرير الحفظ والتوسع من الناحية العملية: الذرة والأرز والقمح . متوفر باللغة الإنكليزية فقط. لإطعام عدد سكان العالم الذي يتزايد، ليس أمامنا خيار سوى أن نكثِّف الإنتاج المحصولي. ولكن المزارعين يواجهون معوقات غير مسبوقة. ويجب أن تتعلم الزراعة كيف تحفظ لكي تتوسع.

En la presente guía se describe la aplicación práctica del modelo de la FAO de intensificación sostenible de la producción agrícola “Ahorrar para crecer” en los cultivos fundamentales para la seguridad alimentaria mundial, esto es, el maíz, el arroz y el trigo. Con ejemplos de África, América Latina y Asia, se muestra cómo los sistemas agrícolas basados en los ecosistemas están ayudando a los pequeños agricultores a incrementar los rendimientos de los cereales, fortalecer sus medios de vida, reducir la presión sobre el medio ambiente y aumentar la resiliencia frente al cambio climático.

Mountains of the world cover about one-fifth of the land surface, are home to one-tenth of the world's population, and provide livelihood to some of the poorest communities in the world. Mountain lakes and streams are a source of freshwater for countless riparian human communities, support industries, provide water for irrigation and hydropower electricity production and for fish.