Variability, Risks and Competing Uses blog posts

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.

Rainforests grab the headlines, but with 87% of wetlands lost globally, it is time to nurture these immensely productive and diverse ecosystems.

With these seven questions in hand, farmers and other guardians of nature have a better chance in boosting resilience of their natural systems, with the help of policy measures, political pressure and commitments from the private sector.

Op-Ed in Thomson-Reuters: Groundwater is vital for food, drinking water and climate adaptation. But it's under threat. 700+ groundwater experts from more than 75 countries call for three urgent global actions.