Events
The Global Symposium on Soil Pollution is the first step in implementing the Voluntary Guidelines for Sustainable Soil Management in terms of preventing and reducing harmful substances in soil as a way to maintain healthy soils and food safety in accordance with the Sustainable Development Goals.
Specifically, the symposium outcomes should provide scientific evidence to support actions and decisions to...
WASAG was launched by FAO at COP 22 of the UNFCCC in Marrakesh, Morocco in November 2016.
It's first meeting of partners was held on 20 April 2017, during which the partners adopted “Rome Statement on Water Scarcity in Agriculture”.
WASAG aims to foster strategic collaboration among partners for the development and implementation of policies and programmes for the sustainable use and management of water in agricultural sectors.
The celebratory event has the objective of sharing the achievements to date while reflecting on emerging perspectives.
Meeting the food and water needs of the growing world population over the next half-century will require the use of renewable technologies that significantly improve rural livelihood at minimal environment cost. Among these technologies, solar-power has great potential for rural development through improving access to electricity and water, and can generate additional incomes and new job opportunities. Nevertheless, although solar technologies, in particular solar-powered irrigation, can provide a solution for small-scale farmers, access to finance, good quality products and technical training are often lacking....
In the framework of the TCP project Renforcement de la gestion des ressources en eau transfrontalières sur le bassin du fleuve Sénégal, and in collaboration with the Organisation pour la mise en valeur du fleuve Sénégal (OMVS) and the FAO offices of the Senegal River Basin, the FAO Land and Water Division – Water Governance is leading a training from 9 to 12 April 2018 in Conakry, Guinea.
The training will be entitled Les applications de données géo référencées, SIG / télédétection dans les domaines de l'agriculture, de l'hydroélectricité, de l'environnement et de la pêche and it falls within the project...
An international day to celebrate freshwater was recommended at the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). The United Nations General Assembly responded by designating 22 March 1993 as the first World Water Day, focusing attention on the importance of freshwater and advocating for the sustainable management of freshwater resources.
The theme of each year’s World Water Day is set by UN-Water. This year’s theme is “Nature for Water”. UN-Water issues the annual World Water Development Report, which addresses the theme. This year’s report is entitled “Nature-Based Solutions for Water”, to which FAO has contributed a chapter.
FAO estimates that...