This report examines six agricultural production and processing opportunities for rural areas: horticulture irrigation, grain milling, injera baking, milk cooling, bread baking, and coffee washing.

India boasts the largest irrigated agricultural system in the world relying on groundwater.

A pesar de ser uno de los recursos más importantes para todos los seres vivos en el planeta, el agua dulce representa sólo el 3 porciento del suministro de agua de la Tierra, pero solamente el 0,5 por ciento es fácilmente accesible para los humano

Apesar de ser um dos recursos mais importantes para toda a vida na Terra, a água doce representa somente 3% da provisão de água do planeta, mas somente 0,5% está prontamente acessível para os seres humanos.

Bien qu’étant une des ressources les plus essentielles pour toute vie sur Terre, l’eau douce ne représente que 3% des ressources d’eau de la planète, et seulement 0,5% de cette eau douce est facilement accessible aux humains.

Despite being one of the most critical resources for all life on Earth, freshwater represents only 3 percent of the planet’s water supply, but only 0.5 percent is readily accessible to humans.

We now know that handwashing with soap for 20 seconds can fight the spread of coronavirus. For most of us accessing water is as simple as turning on the taps in our kitchens and toilets.

This year’s theme for World Water Day is Water and Climate Change.

Modern drip-irrigation technologies improve water-use efficiency while simultaneously transforming areas that are not otherwise irrigable in practice (too distant or too high to be reached by surface waters).

Increasingly, decentralization is being adopted by countries in which assumptions made by formal models of decentralization, such as electoral accountability and population mobility, fail to hold.

"Water for all" is an important concept embedded in Sustainable Development Goal 6 on Water and Sanitation. However, implementation does not currently target differential access for women and marginalised people.

Sustainable land management is at the heart of some of the most intractable challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. It is critical for tackling biodiversity loss, land degradation, climate change and the decline of ecosystem services.

Good nutrition is integral to human well-being and to humanity’s ability to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

This paper reviews these challenges as part of a broader analysis of the complex web of pathways that link water, food security and nutrition outcomes.

Women’s empowerment is important to improve the status of women and achieve greater gender equity. It is also an important vehicle for achieving other development goals related to food security, nutrition, health, and economic growth.

In developing countries, where agriculture is a major economic sector, value-chain development is expected to contribute to high-level outcomes.

In rural Ethiopia, devolving public resource allocation to local governments improved delivery on central government priorities but not on citizens’ priorities.