Nargiza Nizamedinkhodjayeva joins the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems in Sri Lanka as a post-doctoral fellow for the Gender, Poverty and Institutions (GPI) research theme.
In May 2014, the Global Water Initiative East Africa together with WLE and it's lead center, the International Water Management Institute, convened a regional workshop on Transformations in Water for Smallholder Farmers in East Africa – towards a ‘Water-Smart Agriculture’ Learning Hub.
AQUASTAT, FAO’s global water information system, and WLE are collaborating to collect, analyze and validate the best available data on municipal wastewater production, collection, treatment, discharge and direct use for irrigation purposes.
The World Agroforestry Centre's Land Health Decisions, Science Domain 4 held its second Hands-on Soil Infrared Spectroscopy Training Course – “Getting the Best out of Light” on 12-16 May 2014 at headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya.
WLE supports an approach to sustainable intensification whereby healthy, functioning ecosystems are seen as a prerequisite to agricultural development, food security and human well-being. Ecosystem services and resilience is a core theme of the program’s integrated approach to natural resource management.
This training handbook, published by the FAO, is a field guide for training urban and peri-urban vegetable farmers in safe practices when using wastewater in vegetable production.
An overview of the recently published 'Hydrological models bring clarity and consensus to challenging policy issues' journal article by Vladimir Smakhtin and Robyn Johnston published in Water International journal.
