With some 600 million Indians facing high to extreme water stress, ‘games’ offer vital insights for expanding self-governance to help people manage water more sustainably.
A Water Pavilion side-event at the UN’s Climate Change Conference (COP26) addresses tech-savvy and inclusive water management innovations that can help farming communities navigate natural disasters and build resilience to climate change.
The cloud-based platform will be the first of its kind in the country, and could be used for an efficient coordination and response mechanism to support agricultural production and rural development.
At a recent workshop, experts in remote sensing shared the latest innovations in digital data with insurance professionals, to enable insurers to build better products that help more farmers in Sri Lanka cope with climate risk.
Accelerating the development of sustainable groundwater use in Africa could be pivotal in the transformation of the continent's food security and prosperity. This was the key message from a side event of the UN Food Systems Summit Science Days, organized by the African Ministers' Council on Water (AMCOW) with support from WLE.
SADMS, which won the Geospatial World Excellence Award in 2020, was created by IWMI with the support of WLE and other partners and is a practical drought monitoring service that uses satellite based maps to show expanding dry regions.
The Colombian dairy sector's commitment to the "zero-deforestation dairy value chain agreement" will support its efforts to reduce deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2050.
A new synthesis report by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) says putting nature at the heart of decision-making is key to achieving transformative change when it comes to securing humanity’s future.
Satellite-based insurance is emerging as a new tool to help merginalised farmers get back on feet following damaging floods or droughts. The technology remotely monitors conditions on the ground, and provides information to verify claims.
Collaborative research by Worldfish, IWMI, IRRI and FISH concludes that diversity of agroecological approaches to rice and fish production can lead to improved food security and climate resilience.
When climate disasters strike, farmers are among the first to feel the consequences. Now, index-based flood insurance (IBFI) could help the most vulnerable defend and recover faster.