Coping with Water Scarcity - The Role of Agriculture

This publication summarizes the project activities that have helped to improve the national, regional and local capacity to cope with water scarcity, as a result of an improved knowledge on how water is being used in the agricultural sector. The ultimate beneficiaries of the project were the communities of the Al-Hashimiyeh area, who benefited from development programme, the pilot project and interventions utilizing water for agriculture and more efficiently. Other direct beneficiaries were the government and water management institutions who benefited, through capacity strengthening, of an improved capacity to manage available water resources and wastewater. The project contributed to the development and validation of a water harvesting sub-strategy for Jordan. The strategy will contribute to the achievement of a number of existing national strategies relating to water, agriculture, environmental management and desertification, and will complement in particular the new Agricultural St rategy for 2014-2020.

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Salman, M.
Format:	Booklet biblioteca
Language:	English
Published:	FAO ; 2016
Online Access:	https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/i5400e http://www.fao.org/3/a-i5400e.pdf
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