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Book (series)Agriculture, food and water: A contribution to the World Water Development Report
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Producing our daily food requires one thousand times more water than we use to drink and one hundred times more than we use to meet our basic personal needs. Rainfed agriculture alone cannot ensure global food supply, and up to 70 percent of the water we take from rivers and aquifers goes into irrigated agriculture. Agriculture is the major source of food and by far the largest consumer of water on the globe. What is the role of water in the world's food production? What are the contributions to food contribution from rainfed and irrigated agriculture and from fisheries? How can more food be produced with the same amount of water? What role does the market play? How does food security connect to poverty and water use? This report discusses these and any other questions using up-to-date information and state-of-the-art knowledge. The United Nations World Water Development Report and its various thematic components provide a periodic review of the world's freshwater resources and th e way we steward them. Chapter 8 of the Report is re-issued here as Agriculture, food and water. -
MeetingSustainable Water Resources Management for Food Security in the Near East Region - Jeddah, 8-9 October 2003 2003
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Book (series)Irrigation in the Middle East region in figuresAquastat Survey – 2008 2009
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The AQUASTAT Programme was initiated with a view to presenting a comprehensive picture of water resources and irrigation in the countries of Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean and providing systematic, up-to-date and reliable information on water for agriculture and rural development. This report presents the results of the most recent survey carried out in the 18 countries of the Middle East region, and it analyses the changes that have occurred in the ten years since t he first survey. Following the AQUASTAT methodology, the survey relied as much as possible on country-based statistics and information. The report consists of three sections. Section I describes in detail the methodology used. Section II contains the regional analysis which presents a synopsis on water resources development and irrigation in the region, including a more detailed description of four transboundary river basins: the Euphrates-Tigris, Kura-Araks, Asi-Orontes and Jord an river basins. Section III contains the detailed profiles on the situation in each country.
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