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3 Jul 2022 EVANSTON IL, United States
Study Finds Water And Food Insecurity Go Hand In Hand
Gallup World Poll 2020 data examined by Northwestern University and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO: individuals experiencing water insecurity were up to 3 times more likely to experience food insecurity.
10 Feb 2022 ROME, Italy
FAO Report: State Of Worlds' Land And Water Resources
Current agricultural practices are neither sustainable nor appropriate for today’s farming challenges and failure to apply technological developments could result in failure to provide food for an estimated additional two billion people by 2050.
12 Nov 2021 GLASGOW, United Kingdom
COP26: Declaration On Forests And Land Use
Donor countries have pledged to provide $12 Billion USD (£8.75 billion) of public climate finance from 2021 to 2025 to a new Global Forest Finance Pledge.
26 Oct 2021 NEW YORK NY, United States
Water Efficiency And Accountability For Equitable Distribution
UN-Water Expert Group warns that the pressure on freshwater resources will not relax Fair distribution will benefit those in greater need.
26 Oct 2021 BAGHDAD, Iraq
Iraq Drought And Crop Reduction Consequences
The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (UNFAO),,the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) call for urgent food assistance in face of three-year Iraq drought. Crop reduction impacts.
2 Jul 2021 New York, United States
UN Targets Freshwater Bodies In Decade Of Ecosystem Restoration
UNEP's decade of ecosystem restoration is underway with a rallying cry to replant and protect forests, clean up rivers and seas and implement sweeping reformations of agriculture. Armed with reports identifying a $4.1 Trillion USD financing gap while promising a 30-fold return on investment, UNEP and the UNFAO call on the public and private sectors to massively scale up their efforts, while setting out mechanism to monitor and measure progress over the next 10 years. Freshwater is one of 8 major types of ecosystems suffering from dangerous levels of degradation.
21 Jan 2021 ANKARA, Turkey
Wasteful Irrigation Methods As A Cause Of Turkey Water Crisis
The causal factors behind Turkey’s water woes include persistently lower rainfall, inefficient water retention policies and wasteful practices in agriculture, municipal and domestic use, further magnified by sustained population growth.With Turkey's government bing forced in January to denia media reports that Istanbul may run out of water within 45 days, new statistics illustrate the role played by outmoded, wasteful irrigation practises in the country...