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Improving Water Productivity to Increase Water Use Efficiency and Agricultural Production - MTF/GLO/253/IHE








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    The purpose of this brochure is to introduce the Project’s work and its expected outputs. The brochure raises awareness on what FAO is doing with EU’s support to improve the livelihood of the rural poor and enhance the development of rain-fed areas in Marsa Matrouh being one of the important border governorates in Egypt. This brochure introduces the Project’s work and its expected outputs. It highlights the rationale for implementing the Project, its objectives, target groups, and main activities. The brochure raises awareness on what FAO is doing with EU’s support to improve the livelihood of the rural poor and enhance the development of rain-fed areas in Marsa Matrouh as one of the important border governorates in Egypt.
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    Good nutrition requires reliable access to safe soil and water for both food production and preparation as well as optimal sanitation and hygiene practices. Yet about one-third of the world’s population currently lives in water-stressed environments. Further, land degradation, water scarcity, flooding and less predictable rainfall patterns due to climate change are expected to undermine the productivity of smallholder farmers and exacerbate growing rates of malnutrition. Achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 2 (end hunger and all forms of malnutrition), 3 (good health and well-being), 6 (clean water and sanitation) and 15 (life on land) will therefore require interdisciplinary strategies that recognize the interconnections among these goals. FAO and IFAD aim to further these goals by implementing a three-year project, “Increasing water productivity for nutrition-sensitive agriculture and improved food security and nutrition”, in six pilot countries: Mozambique, Rwanda, Niger, Benin, Egypt and Jordan. As outlined in the project flyer, the overall objective of the project is to improve dietary quality and diversity through the agricultural production pathway by strengthening the capacity of smallholder farmers in these settings to adopt sustainable water, soil, and agronomic management practices. That is, the project aims to move beyond the traditional approach of “more nutrition per drop” to a more holistic framework of “more diverse nutrients and better economic prospects per drop”. In the proposed theory of change, implementation of these agricultural practices are anticipated to lead to greater dietary diversity and quality, improvements in health, and expanded livelihoods.
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    The overall objective of the On farm Irrigation Development in Old Lands (OFIDO) project is to contribute to the reduction of poverty and the empowerment of poor rural households through targeted interventions aiming to improve water use efficiency at farm levels and to increase the yields, productivity and income of smallholders and the poor. In order to draw lessons from the implementation of this project and to apply them to the national programme to modernize irrigation, FAO, upon request of the Government of Egypt, conducted an independent technical assessment to provide a comprehensive overview of the performance of improved irrigation systems in three governorates within the OFIDO project’s area of intervention, located in the north, centre and south of the country.

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