Agriculture-wetlands interactions

Theme 4: Water Management and Environment

Conference Proceedings
Finlayson, M.; Masiyandima, M.; Molden, D.; Tharme, R. 2005. Challenges for wetlands: water management and agriculture. Information Paper distributed at Conference of the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands COP9, Kampala, Uganda.

Rais, C.; Kouvelis, S.; Torrekens, P. ; Tharme, R. 2005. Prospects and hindrances for mitigating the impact of water use in agriculture on the wetlands of three North African countries. Technical Paper. In WATMED 2 Symposium, Marrakech, Morocco, 14-17 November 2005. 10 pp

Other Publications
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. 2005. Ecosystem services and human well-being: wetlands & water synthesis. World Resources Institute, Washington D.C. 68 pp.

MacKay, H.; Tharme, R.E. 2005. Report of the Ramsar Scientific Technical Review Panel Working Group 3: water resource management. Ramsar Secretariat, Gland, Switzerland.

The Mediterranean Wetlands Initiative (MedWet). 2004. Report on Regional Workshop on Agriculture, Water and Wetlands in the South and East Mediterranean, Tunis, 10-11 January 2004, Tunisia. 13 pp.

Contributions to the following resolutions, and their associated annexes and information papers, adopted by the Contracting Parties to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, inter alia:

    • Resolution VIII.1 “Guidelines for the allocation and management of water for maintaining the ecological functions of wetlands”
    • Resolution VIII.2 “The Report of the World Commission on Dams (WCD) and its relevance to the Ramsar Convention”
    • Resolution VIII.34 “Agriculture, wetlands and water resource management”
    • Resolution IX.1 “Additional scientific and technical guidance for implementing the Ramsar wise use concept” (Annexes on: a conceptual framework for the wise use of wetlands and the maintenance of their ecological character; an integrated framework for the Ramsar Convention’s water-related guidance; river basin management: additional guidance and a framework for the analysis of case studies; guidelines for the management of groundwater to maintain wetland ecological character; ecological “outcome-oriented“ indicators for assessing the implementation effectiveness of the Ramsar Convention; an integrated framework for wetland inventory, assessment and monitoring)
    • Resolution IX.4 “The Ramsar Convention and conservation, production and sustainable use of fisheries resources”
    • Resolution IX.9 “The role of the Ramsar Convention in the prevention and mitigation of impacts associated with natural phenomena, including those induced or exacerbated by human activities”
    • Resolution IX.14 “Wetlands and poverty reduction”