Meeting Name: European Commission on Agriculture
Meeting symbol/code: ECA 36/10/3
Session: Sess. 36

Las presentes directrices han sido elaboradas para asistir a los políticos, planificadores, técnicos y otros agentes implicados, en la decisión de adoptar una política de TGR, y en el caso de que se adopte, en la formulación de un programa efectivo. Un programa de estas características es el que tiene como resultado un proceso de transferencia de las funciones de la agencia de riego a las Asociaciones de Usuarios apropiado, satisfactorio y sostenible, que fomente un desarrollo equitativo en las áreas rurales.

Sustainable intensification requires smarter, precision technologies for irrigation and farming practices that use ecosystem approaches to conserve water.

The FAO Statistical Yearbook 2012: Africa Food and Agriculture, disseminates statistical information that will help all stakeholders to access, easily and quickly, a set of statistics on food and agriculture related to the current themes and domains of interest in the region. The document provides users in Africa and abroad with statistics and reliable indicators on food and agriculture that can be used for policy formulation, monitoring and evaluation.

This report aims to provide a conceptual framework to address food security under conditions of water scarcity in agriculture. It has been prepared by a team of FAO staff and consultants in the framework of the project `Coping with water scarcity: the role of agriculture?, and has been discussed at an Expert Consultation meeting organized in FAO, Rome in December 2009 on the same subject. It was subsequently edited and revised, taking account of discussions in the Expert Consultation and materials presented to the meeting.

The Masscote application presented here has been initialized through a training workshop in Karnataka for engineers and managers from the Krishna Bhagya Jala Nigam Limited (KBJNL) focussing on ALMATTI irrigation systems from 13th to 21st May 2008. The contributions of the working group sessions at this workshop (RAP–MASSCOTE) have been largely included in this report.

The Agricultural Water Solutions Project aims to unlock the potential of smallholder farming by identifying, evaluating and recommending a variety of agricultural water management (AWM) solutions - including technologies as well as the necessary supporting policies, institutions, financing arrangements and associated business models. This is being achieved through a series of interlinked activities in the seven project sites in Africa (Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Tanzania and Zambia) and in India (Madhya Pradesh and West Bengal).

Meeting Name: Committee on Agriculture (COAG)
Meeting symbol/code: COAG/2014/6
Session: Sess.24

En pocas palabras, la escasez de agua tiene lugar cuando la demanda supera el suministro de agua dulce en un área determinada. Escasez de agua = un exceso de demanda de agua para el suministro disponible Esta situación aparece como consecuencia de una elevada demanda agregada por parte de todos los sectores que consumen agua respecto al suministro disponible, bajo las condiciones de infraestructuras y las disposiciones institucionales existentes.

Part of a series of factsheets describing the land and water work programmes