Good Food is First Food. It is not junk food. It is the food that connects nature and nutrition with livelihoods. This food is good for our health; it comes from the rich biodiversity of our regions; it provides employment to people. Most importantly, cooking and eating give us pleasure. …
Ministry of Environment on Friday approved 2 million dollar for the Pakistan Wetlands Programme to execute the work plan of 2010. This was announced by the Federal Secretary for Environment Kamran Lashari while chairing a high level meeting. The provincial and territorial secretaries, representatives of the Wapda, Economic Affairs Division, …
Mumbai: Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) has suggested the Fire Brigade to make use of water from bore wells and dug wells as part of its fire fighting operations. "Currently, as we are facing acute financial and water crisis so we have asked fire department to make use of …
This paper applies the principles of water-use accounts, developed in the first of the series, to the Indus River basin in South Asia. The Indus Basin covers 3 countries, rises in the Tibetan plateau in the vicinity of Lake Mansarovar in China. Irrigated agriculture in the Basin is extensive with …
Global food supply will depend on how well agriculture adopts to climate change. The apparent impacts of the global climate change in India include erratic monsoon, high intensity floods, increased frequency of draughts, decreasing crop yields among others. Rapid industrial development, urbanization and the increasing demand for irrigation water to …
The purpose of this paper is to: challenge some of the misplaced notions of food security challenges posed by the country; by examining how far water becomes a constraint in achieving food security in different regions; analyze the potential future impacts of problems on nation
The health and livelihoods of people in rural and peri-urban areas in developing countries is often strongly related to ecosystems services and water supply, sanitation and hygiene (WASH). Although provision of both is integral to water management, the linkages between the two are rarely recognised in approaches to ecosystem management …
Water is finite resource and can not be replaced/duplicated and produced on commercial scale. Only 2.7% of the water on earth is fresh. Depletion of water resources degrades natural environment and no living being can survive without them. It plays unique role in traditional and modern economy and is mandatory …
This report explores the evidence of whether payments for watersheds can be good for ecosystems and for reducing poverty too. It describes what the protagonists in a range of watershed sites around the world have learned in their efforts to set up such payment schemes.
Climate change is expected to affect the capacity and operations of existing water and sanitation infrastructure and services. These services have to prepare for the widely anticipated consequences of floods and droughts, or risk compromising access to safe drinking water and adequate sanitation for substantial numbers of people in developing …
UN-Water is dedicating World Water Day 2010 to the theme of water quality, reflecting its importance alongside quantity of the resource in water management. The World Water Day 2010 and its campaign is envisaged to: Raise awareness about sustaining healthy ecosystems and human well-being through addressing the increasing water quality …
This paper discusses the results from on-farm community watersheds through groundwater management as the drivers for sustainable management of watersheds in dry land areas. The issues of sustainable development and management of the groundwater resource through integrated watershed management (IWM) approach are also dealt with, in the context of food …
This paper applies the principles of water-use accounts, developed in the first of the series, to the Ganges river basin in South Asia. The Ganges basin covers six countries, the river rises in the western Himalayas in the Uttarakhand state of India, A unique feature is the strong seasonal variation …
This booklet focuses on IFC's work in climate change, highlighting leading projects from all regions and explaining their role in filling the financing gap. This collection of stories is therefore aimed at firms, financial institutions, other investors, and donor governments that are interested in new business models of mitigation and …
