24 Aug 2012

IFAD / WATER CONFERENCE ADVANCER

At World Water Week inStockholm next week, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will promote ways to produce more food despite increasing water scarcity. IFAD

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STORY IFAD / WATER CONFERENCE ADVANCER
TRT: 2.32
SOURCE: IFAD
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 23 AUGUST 2012, ROME, ITALY / FILE

SHOTLIST:

FILE - AUGUST 2011, RIFT VALLEY, ETHIOPIA

1. Wide shot, woman collecting water from water point
2. Tilt up, from water can to woman's face

FILE - JANUARY 2012, ESTADO DO RIO GRANDE DO NORTE, BRAZIL

3. Wide shot, man lifting buckets of water
4. Wide shot, woman carrying buckets of water, cactus in foreground
5. Close up, bucket in well
6. Med shot, man pulling bucket out of well, pouring into container

FILE - NOVEMBER 2010, EGYPT

7. Wide shot, man ploughing irrigated land with horse
8. Close up, horse's feet and plough in water
9. Wide shot, men working in irrigated field

FILE - FEBRUARY 2012, FERKESSE, NORTHERN IVORY COAST

10. Wide shot, people walking on dusty road
11. Wide shot, people walking on dusty road

23 AUGUST 2012, ROME, ITALY

12. SOUNDBITE (English) Rudolph Cleveringa, Technical Advisor Water and Rural Development, IFAD: 
"We all depend on food. Food is grown with water. 70 per cent of the earth's fresh water is destined to agriculture. So you can imagine there is a lot of pressure on that water for food security."

FILE - JANUARY 2012, ESTADO DO RIO GRANDE DO NORTE, BRAZIL

13. Close up, farmer laying down moving sprinkler
14. Med shot, farmers working on lettuce farm, sprinkler in foreground

FILE - AUGUST 2011, FANTALE DISTRICT, OROMIYA REGION, RIFT VALLEY, ETHIOPIA

15. Wide shot, pastoralists leading cattle across arid landscape
16. Close up, thin cattle walking
17. Wide shot, woman and child sorting grain in front of huts
18. Wide shot, man walking to dam
19. Wide shot, man checking water level in dam with stick
20. Close up, spade digging irrigation trench
21. Wide shot, woman digging irrigation trench in field

FILE - JANUARY 2012, ESTADO DO RIO GRANDE DO NORTE, BRAZIL

22. Wide shot, man turning on filter tap
23. Med shot, water dripping in filtering system
24. Close up, water dripping in filtering system
25. Close up, dirty water in filtering system
26. Med shot, man working on farm, drip irrigation in foreground
27. Close up, drip irrigation
28. Wide shot, man pulling carrots out of ground

23 AUGUST 2012, ROME, ITALY

29. SOUNDBITE (English) Rudolph Cleveringa, Technical Advisor Water and Rural Development, IFAD: 
"People are coping with it already. They are building up their own resilience to this water stress. Now we can of course enhance that resilience and their capacities by improving methods by which they can either grow different crops; they can do their cropping in a more water saving measure; they can save water; they can recycle water and nutrients and energy with it. And of course if they have the means and markets around them they can go into precision agriculture – higher value crops that consume less water but yet yield a better interest."

FILE - FEBRUARY 2012, BOUNDIALI, NORTHERN IVORY COAST

30. Wide shot, woman collecting water from well
31. Med shot, woman pouring water into cistern

STORYLINE:

At World Water Week in Stockholm next week, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) will promote ways to produce more food despite increasing water scarcity.

One in three people across the world live with water scarcity. And it's a growing problem.

With the world population expected to top 9 billion people by 2050, 10 per cent more water will be needed to produce enough food to feed them. But water is a finite resource and agriculture is a very thirsty business.

Rudolph Cleveringa, Technical Advisor for Water and Rural Development at the United Nation's International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) stresses the dependence that we all have on food. He said," food is grown with water. Seventy  per cent of the earth's fresh water is destined to agriculture. So you can imagine there is a lot of pressure on that water for food security".

This connection between water and food security is the theme of World Water Week beginning on Sunday 26 August 2012, where experts from around the world will meet in Stockholm.

It is a relevant theme, with droughts and poor harvests currently affecting people from the USA to Africa. IFAD will be there to promote ways for rural farmers to produce food with limited water resources.

During World Water Week, IFAD will promote the widespread use of simple technologies that farmers can use to become more efficient with their water use.

According to IFAD, the future of farm production will depend on how people use their limited water resources.

Noting that people are already coping with limited amounts of water, Cleveringa said that "they are building up their own resilience to this water stress".

And that resilience can be enhanced by improving methods by which farmers can either grow different crops or do their cropping in a more water saving measure. Cleveringa said "they can save water; they can recycle water and nutrients and energy with it. And of course if they have the means and markets around them they can go into precision agriculture – higher value crops that consume less water but yet yield a better interest".

And the time to act is now. By 2025, it's estimated around 1.8 billion people will be living in areas with absolute water scarcity and so solutions are needed now to help people to survive in the future.