Water Policy – The U.S. TURKISH LIBRARY & MUSEUM

NATURE BASED SOLUTIONS, WATER MANAGEMENT AND AGRICULTURE

August 31, 2018 by admin

Presented by:
Olcay ÜNVER, PhD., Vice Chair of UN-Water and Deputy Director of Land and Water Division at Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO);
Member of the WLE Steering Committee

“The case for intensification has been well articulated in the literature, both from a perspective of increased production, through high-yielding crops, increased irrigation, mechanization, and the role of chemicals that increase production levels, and from a conservation perspective, in terms of the millions of hectares of forests which otherwise would be converted into farm land, unquantifiable amount of ecosystem services saved, and of some 590 billion tons of CO2 prevented from being released into the atmosphere.”

Filed Under: AGRICULTURE, ENGLISH, FOOD, GLOBAL GOALS, OLCAY ÜNVER, PhD, SDG6, SU/WATER, UN FAO, UN-WATER, UNITED NATIONS, WATER Tagged With: 2018 World Water Week, agroecological, agroecology, aquaculture, ecosystem, green revolution, human migration, Nature Based Solutions, OLCAY ÜNVER, Sustainable Development Goals, UN Food and Agriculture, UN-Water, UNFAO, united nations, Water Management and Agriculture, Water Policy, Water Scarcity, water stress