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BookletCoping with Water Scarcity - The Role of Agriculture
Phase III: Strengthening National Capacities. Jordan
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This publication summarizes the project activities that have helped to improve the national, regional and local capacity to cope with water scarcity, as a result of an improved knowledge on how water is being used in the agricultural sector. The ultimate beneficiaries of the project were the communities of the Al-Hashimiyeh area, who benefited from development programme, the pilot project and interventions utilizing water for agriculture and more efficiently. Other direct beneficiaries were the government and water management institutions who benefited, through capacity strengthening, of an improved capacity to manage available water resources and wastewater. The project contributed to the development and validation of a water harvesting sub-strategy for Jordan. The strategy will contribute to the achievement of a number of existing national strategies relating to water, agriculture, environmental management and desertification, and will complement in particular the new Agricultural St rategy for 2014-2020. -
ProjectCoping with Water Scarcity in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon - GCP/INT/124/ITA 2020
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No results found.Modern agriculture uses 70 percent of all freshwater withdrawals globally, and up to 95 percent in some developing countries, in order to meet current food demand. In addition, to keep up with growing food demand and shifting diets within the next 30 years, it has been estimated that the effective irrigated area will need to increase by 34 percent in developing countries, and that an extra 14 percent of water will need to be withdrawn for agricultural purposes. In arid and semi-arid regions, increasing numbers of the rural poor have begun to see that entitlement and access to water for food production, livestock and domestic purposes are as critical as access to primary health care and education, while at the same time reverting to a massive use of groundwater resources for irrigation. The current project followed two previous phases of a programme aimed at assisting the agriculture sector to cope with water scarcity and was designed to strengthen national capacities in this sector in Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon. -
Book (series)Coping with water scarcity
An action framework for agriculture and food security
2012This 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 materia ls presented to the meeting. The document offers views on the conceptual framework on which FAO's water scarcity programme should be based, proposes a set of definitions associated with the concept of water scarcity, and indicates the main principles on which FAO should base its action in support to its member countries.
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