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Can science assist in the development of a thriving agriculture sector that incorporates water resource management to keep up with population growth?

By: Francis Npong Rural women transplanting rice. Photo: Francis Npong By 2050, the world’s population is expected to reach nine billion. This demands an increase in food production and the conservation of water bodies to meet the food and water needs of the growing population. This means that the global food system must be given priority attention. According to the UN Food and Agriculture…

Social transformation analysis: new development tool for positive impact

By: Francis Npong Change is the only constant thing that occurs regularly. The adoption and integration of culture and lifestyle, behaviours, and languages occurred because of this shift facilitated by globalization. Access to knowledge and information has also influenced livelihoods, tastes, and preferences. Political and economic changes are advancing in the same ways. While these changes…

University of Birmingham: Irrigating vegetables with wastewater in African cities may spread disease

The Food and Agriculture Organization wrote in Chapter 2 – Health risks associated with wastewater use:

The survival of pathogens and how they infect a new host needs to be understood in developing a programme to eliminate or minimize health risks. The importance and complexity of the rural health problem for those living and working where wastewater is used is beyond the scope of this document.…

How changing the world’s food systems can help to protect the planet

Technology can be used to help farmers produce good crops (photo credit: Leo Sebastian, IRRI/CCAFS). 

Written by Elwyn Grainger-Jones, CGIAR System Organization

Going into debt with nature is a dangerous thing. When our stocks of water, land and clean air are spent—we don’t have a second planet to borrow from. But that’s exactly the way that Earth is heading. 1 August 2018 marks an annual event, ‘

Climate impacts hit 750 million South Asians over 10 years

Joydeep Gupta A new study looks at five major impacts of climate change, the sectors and the people most vulnerable. Almost 750 million people in South Asia were affected by floods, droughts, extreme rainfall, heat waves and sea-level rise — all impacts of climate change or worsened by it — in the first decade of this millennium, according to new research by the International Water Management…