IFPRI is co-organizing a session at World Water Week 2019 with the the United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition, The World Bank Group and the Stockholm International Water Institute.

One out of every third person lives in a water stressed environment. It is, however, not only the magnitudes that link water and nutrition—the challenges and solutions are also closely interlinked—so interlinked, in fact, that achieving SDG targets for water without consideration of other goals and targets could well constrain efforts to reach SDG targets on nutrition—and vice versa.

This session discusses new evidence on water-nutrition linkages with a focus on small-scale supplementary irrigation. Compelling studies on water-wise diets, and a new guidance for practitioners on nutrition-sensitive water management will also be presented. It will strengthen the links between the water and nutrition communities.

Welcome by Chair and introduction to WASAG

• Biniam Iyob, USAID

The interlinkages between water and nutrition, implications for the UN Decade of Action on Nutrition and the International Decade for Action on Water for Sustainable Development 

• Stineke Oenema, UNSCN

What is a water-wise diet? 

• Jan Lundqvist, SIWI 

How Irrigation Supports Nutrition Outcomes. New Insights from the USAID Feed-the-Future Small-Scale Irrigation Project

• Claudia Ringler, Deputy Director of Environment and Production Technology Division, IFPRI

Nutrition-sensitive water management: practical guidance for irrigation interventions 

• Regassa Namara, World Bank

Panel and Q&A 

Moderator: Biniam Iyob, USAID 

• Jennie Barron, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences  
• Marlos de Souza, FAO & WASAG  
• John Jagwe, Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA)  
• Paul Orengoh, African Ministers’ Council on Water (AMCOW) 
• Valeriya Valieva, Karolinska Institute