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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetObservations and key messages on Nature-Based Solutions for agricultural water management and food security 2018
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No results found.Food and agricultural systems are under a set of pressures to feed an increasingly hungry population and to cope with an intensifying competition over natural, human and financial resources, all subject to impacts of climate change. The natural resource base is already degraded to significant levels, and ‘’business as usual’’ is no longer an option. FAO has been emphasizing the need to accelerate a global transition to sustainable food and agriculture systems, advocating an integrated approach to ensure sustainability in production and subsequent value chains processes, taking into account the sustainable management of natural resources, and water resources in particular. This document focuses on the management of water for agricultural use, which holds the largest share of total water demand for many countries as illustrated by Figure 1. Moreover, for many countries, the prospects of improving water availability under changing climatic conditions remain a challenge, as both droughts and flood hazards are expected to increase. Conventional interventions founded on ‘hard’ water engineering and infrastructural development provided valuable lessons but often showed that they compromise the very ecosystem services that are required for stable water flows. Hence, calls for a paradigm shift in water management are justified and should be a priority on the political agendas. -
Book (stand-alone)Nature-based solutions in agriculture: Sustainable management and conservation of land, water and biodiversity 2021
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No results found.In recent years, considerable progress has been made in the area of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) that improve ecosystem functions of environments and landscapes affected by agricultural practices and land degradation, while enhancing livelihoods and other social and cultural functions. This has opened up a portfolio of NbS options that offer a pragmatic way forward for simultaneously addressing conservation, climate and socioeconomic objectives while maintaining healthy and productive agricultural systems. NbS can mimic natural processes and build on land restoration and operational water-land management concepts that aim to simultaneously improve vegetation and water availability and quality, and raise agricultural productivity. NbS can involve conserving or rehabilitating natural ecosystems and/or the enhancement or the creation of natural processes in modified or artificial ecosystems. In agricultural landscapes, NbS can be applied for soil health, soil moisture, carbon mitigation (through soil and forestry), downstream water quality protections, biodiversity benefits as well as agricultural production and supply chains to achieve net-zero environmental impacts while achieving food and water security, and meet climate goals. -
PresentationFAO discussion paper: Nature-Based Solutions at the service of agricultural water management and food security
Webinar 5: Nature-based solutions for agricultural water management and food security
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No results found.There are major challenges to feed the world by 2050. External inputs must grow at about the same rate while decreasing returns in productivity can be compensated or possibly surpassed by further efficiency gains. Agriculture is responsible for approximately 70 percent of water withdrawals and about 60 percent of the population lives in areas of water stress. Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) can be part of the solution to meet this demand. Nature Based Solution has more than one definition. There is no straightforward distinction between NBS and other human induced management of ecosystem services. NBS is an umbrella concept that covers various processes.
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