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NewsletterWater Productivity and Sustainability in NENA Countries Newsletter, July 2021 - Issue #2 2021
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No results found.The Near East and North Africa (NENA) region, already exposed to chronic shortage of water, will face in the coming decades a severe intensification of water scarcity due to several drivers, including demographic growth and its related food demands, urbanization, energy demand and overall socio-economic development. Furthermore, the NENA region is experiencing more frequent intense extreme events (in particular droughts) as a consequence of climate change. The recently agreed 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development requires evidently a ‘transformational’ change in managing strategic resources, such as water, land and energy. The project "Implementing the 2030 agenda for water efficiency/productivty, and water sustainability in the NENA region" aims at establishing a robust water accounting system providing the evidence base for the full water and for monitoring progress in the achievement of the targets while assessing the institutional effectiveness to govern water resources; implementing a series of interventions to increase water efficiency and productivity in selected farming systems of the countries to help in achieving SDG 6.4; ensuring that higher efficiency and productivity achievements for the 2030 timeline are attained within ‘safe operational boundaries of water use’ defining the conditions for ‘water sustainability’ for sustainable, socially equitable and human rights based development; and raising awareness on the water-food-energy theme. This newsletter edition summarizes the activities that took place under the project in 2019, which lie under the four main objectives mentioned above. -
NewsletterWater Productivity and Sustainability in NENA Countries Newsletter, July 2021 - Issue #3
Summary of activities from July to December 2020
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No results found.The Near East and North Africa (NENA) region, already exposed to chronic shortage of water, will face in the coming decades a severe intensification of water scarcity due to several drivers, including demographic growth and its related food demands, urbanization, energy demand and overall socio-economic development. Furthermore, the NENA region is experiencing more frequent, intense extreme events (in particular droughts) as a consequence of climate change. The recently agreed 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development requires evidently a ‘transformational’ change in managing strategic resources, such as water, land and energy. The countries of the region need to strategically plan their water resources management and allocation, review their water, food security and energy policies, formulate effective investment plans, modernize governance and institutions and account for transboundary surface and groundwater. Good practices need to be adopted to ensure alignment with the imperatives of (i) setting the sustainable limits of water consumption and (ii) making the best use of each single drop of water, including the use of non-conventional water sources. This newsletter is a recap for the activities that took place on a regional level for the period from July to December 2020, for this project "Implementing the 2030 Agenda for water efficiency/productivity and water sustainability in the NENA countries". -
NewsletterFAO One Country One Priority Product Newsletter, April 2023 – Issue #2 2023
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No results found.This newsletter collates a variety of activities that have taken place under the One Country One Priority Product Initiative (OCOP) from January to April 2023. It describes a period of intensifying marked by the strengthening of international technical partnerships with the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences (CATAS) and the establishment of an African Regional Organizing Group to coordinate the OCOP country projects led by over 25 FAO Members in the FAO Africa region. The focus of the implementation is on the five OCOP demonstration countries, one in each FAO region. This Newsletter Issue describes how their initial phases of implementation have been coordinated and mutually supportive, and how demonstration countries have been launching their projects to sustainably develop the Special Agricultural Products selected for their country with inception workshops with local stakeholders participating. Communication about the initiative is focusing on these demonstration countries on the OCOP Global website, alongside online, open access training resources that cover each of their Special Agricultural Products as well as several others selected by projects that will soon follow in the demonstration country's footsteps. Finally, a field story about small-scale farming practices for sweet cherries in Uzbekistan, as an illustration of how the sustainable development of the value chain of one product can have positive spillovers that help farmers improve the livelihood from a variety of crops.
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