Switzerland recently announced its decision to invest in agricultural research by supporting the CGIAR, joining contributions aimed at food security and the 2030 Agenda goal of eradicating poverty and hunger.
A seminar on Sept. 7 raised discussion on how the Salween River, shared by China, Myanmar, and Thailand, is increasingly at the heart of pressing regional development debates.
Youth migration and gender disparities due to urbanization are striking a sever blow to agriculture in Ghana. And the Reach-STR project aims to mitigate these challenges through sustainable agriculture, with the help of stakeholders.
Water and nutrition security are closely intertwined. At the 2019 Stockholm World Water Week, experts discussed how to bring together nutrition and water interventions under the SDGs, within the timeframes of the UN Decades of Action on Nutrition and the UN Water Action Decade.
New World Bank report reveals the "more invisible threats" of water pollutants. IWMI senior researcher Javier Mateo-Sagasta provides context on the implications.
Latest reports by WHO on microplastics and World Bank on water pollution reveal knowledge gaps on potential harm caused by microplastics in drinking water, and dangers posed by other forms of water pollution. IWMI/WLE's reactions were featured in global media.
Delayed weather information left 12 districts flood-hit in Bihar last month, a trend that leaves communities in Nepal and India vulnerable and surprised by heavy rain.
The Ethiopian Ministry of Finance (MoF) has signed a tax reform bill that is slated to remove almost all duty tax on irrigation, mechanization and animal feed equipment and technologies. This decision was brought about, in part, based on recommendations made by IWMI and WLE.
At the CSA Investment Advantage event, part of the larger Agriculture Advantage 2.0 event series at COP24, WLE/IWMI and others discussed ways to identify best-bet CSA technologies and practices for investment.
The Policy Advantage event, part of the larger Agriculture Advantage 2.0 event series at COP24, brought together WLE/IWMI and other diverse perspectives on the policy change needed for food systems transformation.
Changes to farming systems require managing trade-offs—many of which have not yet been considered, according to IWMI/WLE senior researcher Soumya Balasubramanya in the new Economist report Fixing food 2018: best practices towards the sustainable development goals.
Our partners at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) have contributed to a new paper published in Science that shows that increasing irrigation efficiency through irrigation technologies alone is failing to reduce water consumption and, paradoxically, may even be making water scarcity worse.
