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.
Water efficiency in agriculture
Strengthening Agricultural Water Efficiency and Productivity on the African and Global Level
On 2-3 March, the UN-Water Integrated Monitoring Initiative for SDG 6 (IMI-SDG6) Steering Committee met to review the 2021 results and plan for the 2022 work. 2021 results In 2021, IMI-SDG6 focused its work on communicating the current status of SDG 6 and acceleration needs to achieve SDG 6 by 2030, … Read more
The FAO Land and Water Division has launched the new website of the Building Forward Better Initiative. The Building Forward Better Initiative “addresses countries in fragility and contributes to reduce the technical and knowledge gap hallmarking vulnerable contexts”. This refreshed website provides … Read more
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) hosts the Global Framework on Water Scarcity in Agriculture (WASAG) in its Land and Water Division. Now, FAO has launched a dedicated website to serve the growing needs of its member countries, as well as those of other partners and s … Read more
As part of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) will host a webinar called ‘Restoring Freshwater’ on 22 March 2022, World Water Day. This event will bring together existing work on freshwater … Read more
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) have released a new report: The AquaCrop model: enhancing crop water productivity. Ten years of development, dissemination and implementation 2009-2019. AquaCrop is the FAO crop-water productivity model. Over the past decade, AquaCrop … Read more
