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
Using SDG data to support science, technology and innovation: the SDG 6 example UN-Water 14 May, 2019 From 14-15 May 2019, the 4th annual Multi-stakeholder Forum on Science Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development Goals (STI Forum), is hosted at the UN Headquarters in New York. Duri … Read more
New version of FAO AQUASTAT now available online UN-Water 6 May, 2019 AQUASTAT is the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) global information system on water resources and agricultural water management. AQUASTAT collects, analyses and provides free access to over 180 variabl … Read more
FAO reports on decline of biodiversity UN-Water 11 April, 2019 The first FAO report on the State of the World’s Biodiversity for Food and Agriculture was released during the seventeenth session of the Commission on Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture. Based on information provided by 91 count … Read more
The United Nations General Assembly declare 2021 – 2030 the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration UN-Water 8 April, 2019 The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, declared 1 March by the UN General Assembly, aims to massively scale up the restoration of degraded and destroyed ecosystems as a proven measu … Read more
Commemoration of World Water Day and launch of UN World Water Development Report UN-Water 18 March, 2019 Commemorating World Water Day, a pivot event will be hosted on 19 March 2019 at the Palais des Nations, home of the United Nations Office at Geneva. During the event, the United Nations World Wat … Read more
