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
FAO guide to land degradation assessments UN-Water 11 January, 2018 Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have it rough in many ways. They are perhaps best known for their vulnerability to climate change, as a result of high poverty, rural populations, dependence on traditional agriculture, tourism- … Read more
Integrated monitoring: 75 countries share experiences for way forward UN-Water 12 December, 2017 On 22-24 November 2017 UN-Water, together with the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management of the Netherlands, organized a global workshop for integrated monitoring of Sustainable Development Goa … Read more
Survey for SDG 6 data portal UN-Water 31 October, 2017 To ensure sustainable management of water and sanitation for all, it is essential to look at the water cycle in its entirety, including all uses and users. This is exactly what Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6 seeks to do, covering all the m … Read more
How will we feed 9 billion people by 2050? UN-Water 17 October, 2017 World Food Day is a day of action dedicated to tackling global hunger. Held annually on 16th October, people from around the world come together to declare their commitment to eradicate worldwide hunger from our lifetime. In 2017 f … Read more
Global workshop on monitoring SDG 6 UN-Water 9 October, 2017 The UN-Water Integrated Monitoring Initiative for SDG 6 is organizing a global workshop in November in The Hague, the Netherlands, gathering country representatives from across the world as well UN-Water Members and Partners. The purpose o … Read more
