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Animal-law.biz: How to feed the world’s population of 7 billion?
The International Water Management Institute has predicted that by 2025 about 1.8 billion people will live in places suffering from severe water scarcity.
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Apps.eng.unimelb.edu.au: Impacts of climate change and watershed development on whole-of-basin agricultural...
The main aim in this project is to assess the impacts of watershed development and climate change on the long-term water security for agriculture...
Unesco-ihe.org: Switch: Sustainable water management improves tomorrow’s cities’ health
SWITCH is an EU-funded research programme aimed at achieving more sustainable integrated urban water management in the 'City of the Future', 30-50 years from...
Achieving food security in the face of climate change – Recommendations...
COPENHAGEN (16 November 2011) - In the lead up to UN global climate talks in Durban, South Africa later this month, an independent global...
Eoi.es: DP #1: Food Waste
In fact, a recent collaborative paper by the the Stockholm Environmental Institute, the Stockholm International Water Institute, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, and...
Uk.oneworld.net: Water Scarcity guide
With projections of supply and demand for freshwater veering off in opposite directions, global warming represents the worst possible intervention. Rising planetary temperatures will...
Newstoday.com.bd: Integrated approach needed for victims of climate disasters
Under this program in Bangladesh and India, three CGIAR centers: IRRI, WorldFish, International Water Management Institute (IWMI) along with IWM (Institute of Water Modeling)...
News.nationalgeographic.com: Two Rivers: The Chance to Export Power Divides Southeast Asia
Diana Suhardiman, a research scientist for the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) in Vientiane, Laos, said the issues are complex, with "formal political/environmental agendas,...
Uea.ac.uk: Raising Irrigation Productivity And Releasing Water for Intersectoral Need
This five year project (2001 - 2006) examined the idea that irrigation efficiency could be raised to release water downstream. It was a DFID-funded...
Greanvillepost.com: Animal husbandry & the Horn of Africa famine
"Currently, 1.6 billion people live in areas of physical water scarcity. This could easily grow to two billion soon if we stay on...