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Course: Water management for climate-smart agriculture

Institutional & promotional materials
November, 2018

This fact sheet describes the following e-learning course: This course focuses on water management and its critical role in climate-smart agriculture. It analyses the impacts of climate change on the availability of freshwater resources for agriculture and considers possible water management options for adaptation to climate change and for climate change mitigation.

The effect of irrigation service delivery and training in agronomy on crop choice in Tajikistan

Journal Articles & Books
November, 2018

The aim of this paper is to analyze the effect of irrigation delivery services and agricultural extension services on crop choice in southern Tajikistan. This analysis is motivated by the government’s recent efforts to address the country’s severe malnutrition problem by supporting changes in irrigation service delivery and agronomy to increase diversity in agricultural production and consumption, in an environment where the cultivation of cotton had, until recently, been mandatory.

Atlas of West African urban food systems: examples from Ghana and Burkina Faso

Journal Articles & Books
November, 2018
Burkina Faso
Ghana
Western Africa

This Atlas summarizes recent advances in interdisciplinary approaches and research to address the different components of West African urban food systems, including urban and peri-urban agriculture. It thereby draws on the results of several major collaborative research projects and stakeholder consultations conducted in West Africa over the past two decades, and in particular on the UrbanFoodPlus project in Ghana and Burkina Faso (www.urbanfoodplus.org). The publication targets with its innovative design a broad range of stakeholders.

Progress on level of water stress - Global baseline for SDG 6 Indicator 6.4.2

Journal Articles & Books
October, 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.


Indicator 6.4.2 is useful for policymaking as it highlights those regions under high water stress, thereby informing countries on where they need to make efforts to improve water resource usage and promote water saving.

A local to global perspective on oil and wind exploitation, resource governance and conflict in Northern Kenya

Journal Articles & Books
October, 2018
Africa
Kenya

In north-western Kenya, significant oil reserves have been discovered and the first oil trucks have left Turkana County in June 2018. On the east side of Lake Turkana, the largest wind power project on the African continent was completed in mid-2017. This article applies a local to global perspective to explore the benefits and externalities for the local communities living in close proximity to the oil and wind exploitation sites. A particular focus is placed on governance of energy resources, water and employment opportunities and its impacts on new and existing conflict dynamics.

Profil de Pays – Comores

Journal Articles & Books
October, 2018
Mozambique
Comoros
Madagascar

This country profile describes the state of the water resources and water use, as well as the state of agricultural water management in Comoros. The aim of this report is to describe the particularities of the country and the problems met in the development of the water resources, and irrigation in particular. Irrigation trends, existing policies and legislation to water use in agriculture, possible treaties and agreements between countries as well as prospects for water management in agriculture are presented, as described in literature.

Transboundary River Basin Overview – Salween

Journal Articles & Books
October, 2018
Japan
Italy
Thailand
China
Myanmar

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 Salween 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. Irrigation trends, existing policies and legislation to water use in agriculture, possible treaties and agreements between countries as well as prospects for water management in agriculture are presented, as described in literature.

Transboundary River Basin Overview – Jordan

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. Irrigation trends, existing policies and legislation to water use in agriculture, possible treaties and agreements between countries as well as prospects for water management in agriculture are presented, as described in literature.

Methodological guide to reduce carbon and water footprints in banana plantations

Journal Articles & Books
October, 2018
Germany
Dominica
France
Honduras
Japan
Nicaragua
Panama
Dominican Republic
Chile
Guatemala
Montenegro
Cameroon
Belize
Colombia
Ghana
Ecuador
Costa Rica
Mexico
Brazil

The World Banana Forum (WBF) publication developed a methodological guide to reduce water and carbon footprints in banana plantations worldwide. Members of the Working Group (WG) on Sustainable Production Systems and Environmental Impact acknowledged the contribution of banana production in the total global GHG emissions and the consumption of freshwater in the economic activity, both stressed in the 2015 Paris Climate Conference (COP21), having the agricultural sector a high mitigation potential.

Transboundary River Basin Overview – Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna

Journal Articles & Books
October, 2018
Nepal
Bangladesh
China
Italy
United Kingdom
Congo
India
Bhutan

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 Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna 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.

Transboundary River Basin Overview – Kura Araks

Journal Articles & Books
October, 2018
Turkey
Azerbaijan
Italy
Netherlands
Iran
Russia
Georgia
Armenia

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 Kura Araks 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. Irrigation trends, existing policies and legislation to water use in agriculture, possible treaties and agreements between countries as well as prospects for water management in agriculture are presented, as described in literature.

Transboundary River Basin Overview – Indus

Journal Articles & Books
October, 2018
India
Pakistan
Afghanistan
China
Italy

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 Indus 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. Irrigation trends, existing policies and legislation to water use in agriculture, possible treaties and agreements between countries as well as prospects for water management in agriculture are presented, as described in literature.