Thumbnail Image

Synthesis Report - Cubango-Okavango River Basin Water Audit (CORBWA) Project

Year of publication 2014

Author Land and Water Division

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Category Technical report

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Home to one of the last near-pristine aquatic system of the world, the Cubango-Okavango river basin faces the challenge of sustaining the livelihoods of nearly 900 000 people in three countries (Angola, Namibia and Botswana) while preserving its unique ecosystem. FAO has been providing support to the Permanent Okavango River Basin Commission (OKACOM) since the year 2000 through the implementation of the Environmental Protection and Sustainable Management of the Okavango (EPSMO) project , on which this Cubango-Okavango River Basin Water Audit (CORBWA) builds. A Water Audit provides a country administration or a river basin organization with a comprehensive methodology for assessing, analysing and reporting of the use of increasingly scarce water resources. On the supply side, the audit provides information about the water availability. On the demand side, it gives a detailed picture, on how the water is used, for which purpose, and with which value. A detailed asses sment of agricultural water use, including its productivity, its value-in-use, and its efficiency during the water use process, gives countries handles to adapt water policies and improve water management plans for the future through strategic and integrated interventions to increase their capacity to cope with water scarcity. This report presents a synthesis of sixteen thematic reports which describe the different components of the CORBWA in the three riparian countries and at basin level.

Language English

Also available in:
No results found.

Related items

Showing items related by metadata.
Show more

Users also downloaded

Showing related downloaded files

  • Thumbnail Image
    Book (series)
    Manual / guide
    活禽市场生物安全指南 2016
    Also available in:
    该指南为提高活禽市场的生物安全提供了解决方案，特别关注将产生重大影响的地区。 该指南通过个案分析，强调如何提升活禽市场的生物安全，以降低疾病从家禽到家禽，以 及从家禽到人类的传播风险。 活禽市场被认为是禽流感病毒从活禽传播到人（商贩和顾客）的人畜共生传染源。尽管 在许多情况下，禽流感病毒会通过直接或间接接触传染，但其确切的传播路径尚属未知。 1997年以来，在市场里由家禽传播到人类的禽流感病毒被首次确认为甲型流感病毒 （H5N1）。一系列新出现的甲型流感病毒亚型使情况变得更加复杂，包括2013年3月被 首次确认的病毒H7N9亚型。从2013年3月开始，截止2014年4月，H7N9亚型已造成中国 470多起人类感染病例，对邻国和贸易伙伴造成威胁。 需要在活禽市场采取措施，以降低家禽和人感染此类病毒的可能性。 如果任何人因为在市场中工作或去过活禽市场而感染来源于禽类的流感病毒，并患上 重病，这意味着控制和预防体系的失败。 因此，无论是何种市场类型，最重要的目标是，最大限度地降低在市场上销售的家 禽和市场环境对市场内商户和顾客造成的健康威胁。这一目标已在一些地方得以成功实 现，诸如香港特别行 政区和上海，这些地区采取了一系列措施（见下文），并且不惜一 切代价地落实和执行，防止人禽共患禽流感造成生命损失。 事实上，针对许多其他地区，尤其是对具有悠久的活禽交易历史，具有成熟活禽交易 市场和做法，资源却贫乏的城市和国家，最佳办法就是降低感染风险。在许多进行家禽 交易的现有市场或地区，配套设施多难以清洗和消毒。 世界卫生组织指出，在许多情况下，“市场产生资源的水平非常低，因而基本没有资 金用于维护和改善。所以，当务之急是识别真正造成公共健康风险并且需要立即引起关 注的问题，而不是那些能很好地解决但并不造成显著公众健康风险的问题，这一点极为 重要。” 1 在制定干预措施时，要格外注意可调配资源有限。这也意味着，要藉由制定出一套涵 盖不同类型活禽市场的单一标准来解决问题是不可行的。市场是多种多样的：从当地社 区或地区一级的市场实行间歇性营业，可能每天只卖10到50只活禽，到大型批发市场每 日家禽流通量数以万计，再到有多个摊位的大型零售市场，每天出售、屠宰、宰杀数百 只不同种类的家禽，存放家禽过夜，并且没有清空市场内家禽的休市日。 本指南提供的信息包含如何减少人畜共患禽流感病毒传入市场及 其传播和进一步扩散 到其他市场或地区，包括餐馆和住户的风险。 另有其他指南专门针对市场的卫生清洁，可作为额外信息以供参考（见参考文献）。
  • Thumbnail Image
    Book (stand-alone)
    Technical book
    Methods for estimating comparable prevalence rates of food insecurity experienced by adults throughout the world
    Voices of the Hungry. Technical report - Number 1/August 2016 (Revised Version)
    2016
    Also available in:
    The Voices of the Hungry project has developed the Food Insecurity Experience Scale, a new metric for household and individual food insecurity. It brings us a step closer to hearing the voices of the people who struggle every day to have access to safe and nutritious food.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Book (stand-alone)
    High-profile
    Disaster risk reduction at farm level: Multiple benefits, no regrets
    Results from cost-benefit analyses conducted in a multi-country study, 2016-2018
    2019
    Also available in:
    No results found.
    This report presents the findings of a multi-year FAO study undertaken on over 900 farms in ten different countries that measured, using field data, benefits gained through the use of innovative farming practices designed to boost the resilience of farmers in the face of natural disasters and other shocks. Its findings show that the use of good disaster risk reduction practices offer significant economic gains at the household level, and also that – because they are usually low-cost and easily implemented – they hold significant potential for reducing disaster risks at the national and regional scales as well. These results can guide farmers in making choices about how to manage risks, and have important implications for disaster risk policymaking as well.
Show more