During the last few years, the donor community has increased its efforts to reduce the large amounts of fish lost in the distribution chain in artisanal fishery, an endeavour that ought to be welcomed in principle. However, focusing on one single solution, the development of an expensive cool chain and the supply of fresh or frozen fish, represents a massive interference with the traditional processing and distribution channels, with women being the main losers. Our author calls for more foresight in international co-operation.

Integrated Watershed Management represents an option for the management of water catchment areas. However, what may sound good in theory often proves to be very difficult when it comes to practical implementation, as an example from the Lower Mekong Region shows.

Twenty-seven nations are classified as ‘water scarce’, a further 16 as ‘water stressed’. This situation, coupled with the fact that many surface and groundwater systems are shared between two or more states, has led governments to develop sustainable water management strategies. This implies a real commitment by all water users – households, farmers, and industrialists – to use available supplies in ways that reap sustainable and equitable benefits for all.

Developing countries, as a group, are the ones most threatened by the hydrological impacts of global climate change. Water is a critical resource in development, and it is affected by climate change in multiple, complex ways ? through changes in temperature and rising sea levels, changes in precipitation patterns, and melting snowfields and glaciers.

Water and soils are increasingly becoming a limiting resource for meeting the food requirements
of a growing world population. Integrated concepts for managing natural resources in a sustainable
and environmentally sound manner show encouraging impacts, if applied on a large scale and
over a long period like in Tigray, the northernmost regional state of Ethiopia.

Water is scarce in India's semiarid zones of Rajasthan. Climate change is putting additional pressure on the rare resources. Irregular or no rainfall forces many small farmers to abandon their fields, at least temporarily, and seek work in the towns. Participative water management projects as practiced in Bhipur village, growing crops with low water requirements and more sustainable farming practices are adaptation strategies that allow farmers to continue their activities despite climate risks.

L'eau est un bien précieux dans les régions semi-arides du Rajasthan, en Inde. En outre, le changement climatique exerce une pression supplémentaire sur les ressources rares. Des précipitations irrégulières, voire inexistantes, obligent un grand nombre de petits paysans à abandonner au moins temporairement leurs champs, afin de chercher du travail dans les villes.

La aprobación de la Ley de Aguas por parte de la Asamblea Nacional no disminuyó los ánimos de los dirigentes de la marcha indígena que rechazan esta normativa y otros puntos de la vida nacional, al considerar que no se han tomado en cuenta sus criterios planteados en la consulta prelegislativa. Hoy cumplen el séptimo día de marcha.

En este artículo se analizan los elementos de género presentes en los procesos de mercantilización de los derechos agrarios y de agua para regadío en el área de influencia del distrito de riego 101 Cuxtepeques, localizado en la región Frailesca de Chiapas. También se examinan las implicaciones de la instrumentación de las políticas hídricas impulsadas en México, para introducir mecanismos de mercado que incentiven la inversión privada en la reasignación de los derechos al agua y la seguridad en la tenencia de la tierra para las mujeres campesinas.

The Country Investment Plan (Plan) is a roadmap towards investment in agriculture, food security and nutrition in Bangladesh. It is a five-year comprehensive plan with national coverage that aims to ensure sustainable food security which entered into force in 2011. The Plan provides a coherent set of 12 priority investment programmes to improve food security and nutrition in an integrated way divided into three components: 1) food availability, 2) food access, and 3) food utilization.

Agreement between the Russian Federation and the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic regarding the delimitation of jurisdictional subjects and plenary powers between the State Bodies of the Russian Federation and the State Bodies of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic from the date of enactment of the present Agreement.

The Ordinance consists of the following Parts: Grants, Leases, and Other Dispositions of State Land (I); Execution, Authentication and Registration of Instruments of Dispositions (II); Vesting Orders and Vested Land (III); State Lands Vested in Village Councils (IV); Special Leases by Local Authorities of Lands Vested in Such Authorities (V); Reservations (VI); Road Reservations (VII); The Foreshore (VIII); Regulation and Control of the Use of the Water of Lakes and Public Streams (IX); Recovery of Payments Due to the State and Cancellation of Instruments of Disposition (X); Administration