Variability, Risks and Competing Uses blog posts

Southeast Asia's ancient practice of fish and rice 'co-culture' can play an important role in greening economies, expanding nutrition security and building community resilience.

Challenges to water resources and nutrition security require new approaches, and a recent online workshop brought together communities from the two closely intertwined sectors to discuss the key linkages and identify a sustainable way forward.

Using technology and freely available real-time data, scientists develop a map combining climate and nutrition information to identify vulnerable farmers and regions, to better target solutions.

How local participation in river, reservoir and other water resource management can help improve livelihoods and protect the environment.

The new framework assists insurers and implementers to reach disadvantaged groups, who are often overlooked in weather-based insurance schemes, to help those farmers recover and rebuild.

These steps will help preparing the region for disaster management to avoid collapse of medical, economic and food systems.

The Ramsar certified wetlands of Colombo – the complex system of lungs that helps the city ward off climate change stresses - are under grave threat, due to unmanaged growing problem of rubbish disposal.

How cloud technology is being used to innovate new globally applicable decision support tools to maintain food production and minimize large-scale food waste, while still maintaining social distancing practices.

The link between water security with food security reveals why pro-poor focused interventions are critical in Making SDG6 a reality.

State-of-the-art climate modeling is more accurately predicting climate change impacts in Western Nepal, and the results are more worrying than ever.

We need to better understand groundwater usage in the Central Dry Zone in Myanmar - where artesian aquifers are drying up due to increasing demand and climate change.

For rural communities, groundwater could deliver much more than enabling agriculture. For best results however, few factors need be considered first.