The Water

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) marks World Food Day 2023 with an crucial component on Earth: water.

Water is excessive on FAO’s agenda due to the fact agriculture is accountable for 72% of world freshwater use, and the availability of water for agriculture is broadly threatened with the aid of ecosystem degradation, local weather trade and opposition for different uses, reads a declaration issued on Monday.

Only 2.5% of the water on Earth is clean and appropriate for drinking, agriculture and most industrial uses. 

“Water is a using pressure for people, economies, nature and the basis of our food, however like all herbal resources, sparkling water is no longer infinite. Rapid populace growth, urbanization, financial improvement and local weather trade are placing the planet’s water assets underneath growing stress.

“Around 600 million humans who depend, at least partially, on aquatic meals structures for their livelihoods are struggling the results of pollution, ecosystem degradation, unsustainable practices and local weather change. We want to produce greater meals and different imperative agricultural commodities with much less water, whilst making sure water is dispensed equally, our aquatic meals structures are preserved and no one is left behind.”

FAO’s help in Bangladesh in water management, fisheries

FAO’s help in Bangladesh throughout 2022-2026 is guided through the Country Programming Framework (CPF) which is centred on 4 pillars. Pillar two is healthy, safe, and nutritious food; and pillar three is local weather resilience and nature-based, low-carbon sustainable development, focusing on water administration and smooth water.

Arnoud Hameleers, FAO consultant advert meantime in Bangladesh, said: “FAO Bangladesh helps the authorities of Bangladesh in water administration amongst different areas. We are working with our counterparts to make sure human beings have extended water infrastructures, introduce superior aquaculture applied sciences and behavior fisheries records surveys to assist insurance policies on fishery ecosystems.”

The announcement says a new find out about as phase of the Smallholder Agricultural Competitiveness Project (SACP) financed via IFAD, technical help will have a look at the affect of floor water administration schemes on agricultural productiveness and crop diversification. The outcomes of this find out about will lead to extended water infrastructure initiatives which enable smallholders to get right of entry to supplemental or full-season water. The SACP beneficiaries are supported thru funding in floor water management, such as water storage and provision systems, which allows them to introduce high-value crops, discover new market possibilities and extend income.

It provides that FAO is working as a technical companion in the Community-based Climate Resilient Fisheries and Aquaculture Development in Bangladesh undertaking to decorate the consciousness and understanding of neighborhood communities. This consists of policy reform and the adoption of climate-resilient fisheries and aquaculture technologies.

“A technical cooperation mission with the Department of Fisheries research the affect evaluation of land-use trade on the fishery ecosystem and aquatic biodiversity in three fundamental river basins (Meghna, Jamuna, and Padma). The evaluation will endorse hints for coverage reform and movements for inclusive administration and restoration of inland fishery ecosystems.

“FAO is imparting full-size education and technical help to the Department of Fisheries and different authorities agencies. This guide consists of conducting scientifically sound fisheries surveys, research, and inventory assessments.

“FAO has brought two technical offerings projects: Catch and Effort Monitoring Systems, Online Registration and Licensing System and Capacity Enhancement and Long-term Quality Assurance for Stock Assessment. An upgraded and increased Bangladesh Survey Information System (BanSIS) and Calipseo System have additionally been developed and adopted for Bangladesh. These equipment assist to higher control and recognize fisheries data, making it less complicated to make knowledgeable selections for sustainable fisheries, which finally advantages people's livelihoods and meals protection in the country.

“In Cox’s Bazar, FAO is working to fix socioecological structures thru built-in watershed management, renewable energy-efficient irrigation systems, and promoting of sustainable agriculture along with environment friendly and equitable use and administration of water resources.

“The ongoing tasks have carried out extraordinary milestones, with 1 557 households collaborating in pilot things to do throughout sixty three water our bodies (ponds, enclosures/ghers, lake/beels etc) associated to fish manufacturing underneath the GEF fisheries project. Additionally, the Access to Finance for Farmers Organizations in Bangladesh, additionally recognized as the Missing Middle Initiative Project (MMI), has reached 1 sixty nine households engaged in fish production, with an extra 595 households benefiting from irrigation facilities.

“At the UN 2023 Water Conference, events agreed to make certain that there is ample water for all and it is of enough volume and fine for keeping biodiversity. Governments, global organizations, academia, lookup institutions, neighborhood communities and the non-public region want to work collectively to gain this goal. As a longstanding associate of Bangladesh, FAO assists in addressing challenges and accelerating agricultural transformation that will gain tens of millions of farmers and families.