Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
FAO is the custodian agency for the SDG indicators 6.4.1 on water use efficiency, and 6.4.2 on level of water stress. As such, FAO collects and reports indicators’ data produced and/or verified by each country, and provide technical support and capacity development as required.
FAO is a partner of the UN-Water-coordinated GEMI project. It has been actively involved in GEMI since it joined the initiative, where it has provided technical expertise in relation with water use efficiency, water scarcity, and wastewater treatment and reuse, together with expertise on approaches to global water monitoring.
In order to better address these issues, FAO has developed AQUASTAT, a monitoring capacity which it has maintained for the past 25 years and which includes a global water database, country reports and associated tools for global analysis of water issues.
Strengthening Agricultural Water Efficiency and Productivity on the African and Global Level
Strengthening Agricultural Water Efficiency and Productivity on the African and Global Level
New FAO publication ‘Landscapes for life’ UN-Water The ecosystems which provide the foundation for sustainable agriculture in productive landscapes and seascapes are being degraded, and their integrity disrupted, at unprecedented rates. The global food supply and the livelihoods of the p … Read more
High-level panel on water stress and human migration: making the link UN-Water Brasilia 19 March, a high-level panel organized by FAO on behalf of UN-Water, will be hosted at the 8th World Water Forum. The event will focus on the linkages between water stress and migratory movements globally. Migrat … Read more
The world agricultures watch UN-Water With the world needing to provide roughly 50 % more food by 2050 – and with climate change, land degradation, watery scarcity and other challenges threaten productivity –agricultural systems must transform. No “one size fits all solution” exists, despite current … Read more
FAO guide to land degradation assessments UN-Water Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have it rough in many ways. They are perhaps best known for their vulnerability to climate change, as a result of high poverty, rural populations, dependence on traditional agriculture, tourism-based economies a … Read more
Integrated monitoring: 75 countries share experiences for way forward UN-Water On 22-24 November 2017 UN-Water, together with the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management of the Netherlands, organized a global workshop for integrated monitoring of Sustainable Development Goal 6 on water and s … Read more