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ProjectFactsheetFortalecimiento de la gobernanza y de la gestión integrada de recursos hídricos para incrementar la eficiencia en el uso del agua en la agricultura - TCP/DOM/3801 2024
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No results found.En la República Dominicana, el manejo de agua dulce es un tema prioritario dadas las oportunidades que existen para mejorar la eficiencia en su uso en el sector agrícola y para mejorar su gobernanza a nivel gubernamental y de usuarios. El agua dulce constituye un recurso vital para sustentar la visión de nación a la que aspira el país, plasmada en su Estrategia Nacional de Desarrollo (END) 2012-2030. En ésta, se menciona que el país busca pasar de un modelo de gestión históricamente enfocado a la expansión de la oferta, a un modelo que enfatice el control de la demanda y el aumento de la eficiencia en el uso del agua. Además, el Plan Hidrológico Nacional (PHN), publicado en 2012 por el Instituto Nacional de Recursos Hidráulicos (INDRHI), reconoció la situación de ineficiencia en el uso del agua en la agricultura, sector que emplea el 82 % de la oferta de agua dulce en el país. A los eventos de sequía que provocan serios problemas de escasez de agua y las presiones que limitan la disponibilidad y provocan conflictos entre usuarios, se suman problemáticas de degradación de la tierra, agravadas por la variabilidad y cambios en el clima. Es visible ya un deterioro progresivo de las cuencas hidrográficas ocasionados por problemas como la deforestación, cambios en el uso de los suelos y la erosión acelerada, sedimentación de los embalses y daños a la infraestructura de riego y agua potable, contaminación, y recurrencia de eventos extremos como sequías e inundaciones. En dicho contexto, el proyecto estuvo constituido por dos principales líneas de acción. La primera, el apoyo al gobierno de la República Dominicana para implementar mecanismos innovadores de gobernanza para la gestión integrada de recursos hídricos y para hacer frente al cambio climático. La segunda, el apoyo a agricultores e integrantes de asociaciones de regantes y de productores, en el empleo de buenas prácticas de manejo de recursos hídricos y resiliencia al cambio climático. -
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No results found.In 2015 the 193 Member States of the United Nations adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which aim to end poverty (SDG1) and hunger (SDG2) while restoring and sustainably managing natural resources. Given the importance of livestock in poor people’s livelihoods, livestock sector development, and particularly the development of the dairy sector, is regarded as a promising avenue for supporting the achievement of SDG1. To underpin the case for dairy development as an avenue for poverty reduction, this study assessed the evidence for a causal relationship between dairy development and poverty reduction / improved household welfare. This study found that dairy cow ownership and/or improvement of dairy cow production consistently had a substantial positive and nearly always statistically significant impact on a wide range of indicators. The research sampled in this study was consistent in it’s agreement that engagement in dairying was the cause rather than the result of higher household welfare. -
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