What are Nature Based Solutions? Nature-based solutions (NBS) is an approach that uses natural infrastructures (e.g., trees, shrubs, ponds) to provide critical services – ecosystem services – for human activities. These ecosystem ...

Between 2019 and 2030, the global food, water, and energy demand are expected to grow by about 12%. Therefore, it is becoming more than pressing to make a better use of the ...

Water, energy and food are the three essential commodities for the functioning of any economy. During the last decades, their resources have been steadily becoming scarcer or degrading to varying degrees from ...

With a surface of 89,318 km square, Jordan is a small country of the Middle East. Jordan is poor of natural resources and 78.4% of its area is semi desert. Jordan is ...

Achieving water savings in agricultural systems is challenging and many projects in the past have failed to deliver the expected water savings. To achieve real water savings, FutureWater and FAO have organized ...

The protection of surface water bodies is indispensable for the good management and balance of the agricultural system and the territory as a whole. A good strategy for irrigation practice and for ...

Agriculture is central to both economic vitality and nutritional security. However, irrigated agricultural represents a major use of both energy and water in the Mediterranean. Population growth throughout the region requires an ...