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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, April 2020 - Issue #1 2020
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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. -
NewsletterFAO One Country One Priority Product Newsletter, July 2023 – Issue #3 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 May to July 2023. The FAO Director-General QU Dongyu reiterated the importance of the OCOP initiative as a key part of the Organisation's overarching strategy. A;lso highlighted are the series of successful regional launch event and workshops on the implementation of OCOP country projects that took place in Uzbekistan, Malawi and Bangladesh. Along with these events there were key milestones for implementation and coordination, namely the Regional Organising Group for Asia and the Pacific, the Sustainable Food Value Chain training for each OCOP demonstration country team and the fifth Inception Workshop for a OCOP demonstration country, about the sustainable development of date palms in Egypt. Resources are being made available on the OCOP website, including the first OCOP webinar and a series of videos produced by the FAO Office of Asia and the Pacific. Finally, there is a field story about the importance of the jackfruit in Bangladesh, with a testimony from jackfruit farmer Kazi Muhammad Fazlul Huq.
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