What are the key gender considerations in irrigation program design? A new post by Laia Domènech of the International Food Policy Research Institute tries to answer this question.
A landmark report by the High Level Panel of Experts (HLPE) for the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) argues that access to water is a vital aspect of ensuring improved food security and nutrition.
The control of pests by their natural enemies represents an important ecosystem service that has the potential to mitigate pest control costs and crop yield loss. The value of ecosystem services to agriculture is enormous and often under-appreciated.
An infographic was developed by WLE and its lead partner, the International Water Management Institute, to show women’s contribution to agriculture and how their integration is key to addressing today’s development challenges.
LONDON — A lot has changed in Ethiopia since hundreds of thousands of people died in the famine of the mid-1980s. Rates of undernourishment have plummeted in the past 25 years, child mortality is down by two-thirds and 90 percent of children go to primary school.
A project to gather data on the country’s freshwater resources and the management of its river flows will take three years, workshop participants heard on June 16. U Bo Ni, director of the Watershed Management Division in the Ministry of Environment Conservation and Forestry, said the data collection would be carried out by local and foreign experts in collaboration with the ministry, concluding in 2018.
Experts have put maximum emphasis on the Ecosystems- based appr-oach to further intensify the food production to contribute more in the national economy side by side with meeting the nutritional demands of own people in Bangladesh, reports BSS.
