World Soil Day 2024
This campaign aims to raise awareness of the importance and relationship between soil and water in achieving sustainable and resilient agrifood systems.
World Toilet Day 2024
This essential space, at the center of our lives, should be safe and secure, but for billions of people, sanitation is under threat from conflict, climate change, disasters and neglect.
12th Global Dialogue Platform
This year’s event will be held under the theme ‘Mainstreaming anticipatory action: collaboration in complex contexts’.
International Day of Rural Women 2024
Women account for a substantial proportion of the agricultural labor force, including informal work, and make significant contributions to agricultural production, food security and nutrition, land and natural resource management, and building climate resilience.
International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction 2024
The International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction 2024 focuses on the role of education in protecting and empowering children for a disaster-free future.
News
Report – Countries must scale up the use of clean technologies to transform the global agricultural sector
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural systems is crucial to keeping the world on track to meet international climate goals.
Fragility, Conflict and Migration (FCM) Initiative webinar 2
When governments talk Anticipatory Action: The silver bullet for disaster risk reduction or just wishful thinking?
Blogs
IWMI and GIZ offer insights on Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystems Nexus for transboundary water management
The solutions foster adaptation to changing climate conditions and protect biodiversity and freshwater ecosystems within and across boundaries.
Features
What the attempts to clean the Seine reveal about water pollution worldwide
Paris’s efforts highlight the difficulty cities face in cleaning waterways to preserve human, animal and ecosystem health.
In the media
Severe drought drops water level to historic low on the Paraguay River, a regional lifeline
Rachael McDonnell comments on the cycles of flood and drought as climate change intensifies.
NEXUS GAINS Talks: The future of global river health monitoring
This webinar will evaluate the readiness of indicators from a NEXUS Gains review of national and regional approaches for river health monitoring indicators for...
Features
A conversation with IWMI’s knowledge management team on enhancing agricultural research with FAO’s AGRIS and AGROVOC programs
AGRIS is a comprehensive bibliographic database focused on agriculture and nutrition, while AGROVOC is a multilingual thesaurus covering a wide range of agricultural terms.
Virtual International Track Session: Groundwater Irrigation for Sustainable Development in South Asia
This online session will discuss the challenges and opportunities of groundwater irrigation in South Asia highlighting three ongoing studies from India, Nepal, and Bangladesh.
NEXUS GAINS Talks 25
Reversing groundwater depletion in Northwest India: Insights from agronomic interventions and potential opportunities.
Blogs
Youth for a water-secure world
It is important to recognize that young professionals can make contributions to issues usually considered “beyond their scope.”
World Food Day 2024
Right to foods for a better life and a better future is this year's theme with food being the third most basic human need after air and water
International Day of Peace 2024
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the United Nations General Assembly’s adoption of the Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace.
Earth Overshoot Day
Earth Overshoot Day marks the date when humanity’s demand for ecological resources and services in a given year exceeds what Earth can regenerate in that year.
Call launch: Research needed on Water-Food-Nexus in rain-fed agri-food systems in Sub Saharan Africa
The Netherlands-CGIAR Water-Food-Nexus call aims to enable scaling-up of soil moisture retention practices among smallholder farmers in rainfed agri-food systems.
Nexus Gains Talks: Spatially explicit approaches at the food-biodiversity-climate nexus
This NEXUS Gains Talk will focus on using spatial datasets to guide and prioritize interventions on and off-farm to support food security, biodiversity conservation, and climate mitigation objectives.
Photos
In solidarity with refugees on World Refugee Day
A week on from World Refugee Day, explore IWMI's work to support refugees and refugee hosting communities across the globe.
Global partnership for sustainable cooperation on shared waters
Global Partnership for Sustainable Cooperation on Shared Waters
CGIAR Initiative: Fruit and vegetables for sustainable healthy diets (FRESH)
Fruit & Vegetables for Sustainable Healthy Diets
Remote sensing for water productivity (WaPOR)
Monitoring land & water productivity by Remote Sensing (WaPOR Phase 2)
CGIAR Initiative: Nature-Positive Solutions
Nature-positive Solutions for Shifting Agrifood Systems to More Resilient and Sustainable Pathways
CGIAR Initiative: Transforming agri-food systems in South Asia
Rethinking Food Markets and Value Chains for Inclusion and Sustainability
Press releases
IWMI’s new strategy shows the way forward for collective action on water security
Strategy 2024–2030 sets course for the next stage of the organization’s research and innovation journey.
Blogs
Anticipatory Actions are often neglected so let’s get behind long-term resilience
IWMI assembled a panel of Anticipatory Action experts for a webinar to discuss empowering communities with lasting Anticipatory Actions for long-term resilience and improved Food, Land and Water Systems.
Nexus Gains Talks: Integrated water resources management for water, energy and food security in the Eastern Nile Basin
This webinar will present results from the CGIAR Initiative on NEXUS Gains and related work in the Eastern Nile Basin that can help policymakers develop more impactful and integrated water solutions in a climate crisis.
In the media
Solve water problems alongside food, energy: World Water Council
Rachael McDonnell said that matters related to water play an important role across sectors, including food, at the World Water Forum in Bali.