FAO-Water Newsletter

Software Tools: Aquacrop practical exercise and solution

A new Aquacrop practical exercise is now available on the FAO-Water website. The exercise tests users on their abiility to create climate files using the Aquacrop software. A step-by-step solution is also provided. Aquacrop is the FAO crop-model to simulate yield response to water of several herbaceous crops.

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>Download solution to practical exercise

Publication : Enduring Farms: climate change, smallholders and traditional farming communities

Farmers living in harsh environments in the regions of Africa, Asia and Latin America, in continuous coping with extreme weather events and climatic variability, have developed and/or inherited complex farming systems that have the potential to bring solutions to many uncertainties facing humanity in an era of climate change.

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Software Updates: Aquacrop version 3.1 now available

The latest version of Aquacrop is now available for download on the FAO-Water website. Aquacrop is the FAO crop-model to simulate yield response to water of several herbaceous crops. Also featured is a new section on a series of Worldwide Aquacrop Workshops: “Capacity Development for Farm Management Strategies to Improve Crop-Water Productivity using AquaCrop”

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Working paper: : The Rural Water Livelihoods Index

The Rural Water Livelihoods Index (RWLI) attempts to assess some of the more fundamental, water-related components which influence rural livelihoods, and which can support rural poverty reduction. In this way it can help decision makers target investments more effectively, ensuring funds get allocated to where there is most need.

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Nicoletta Forlano (Ms)
Communication & Information ManagerUN-Water Communication Advisor
Land & Water Division - NRL / B718Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsViale Terme di Caracalla - ROME - ITALYph. +39 06 570 54068nicoletta.forlano@fao.org

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Contact information	Nicoletta Forlano (Ms), Communication & Information Manager UN-Water Communication Advisor; Land & Water Division - NRL / B718Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Viale Terme di Caracalla - ROME - ITALY (email: nicoletta.forlano@fao.org) Phone: +39 06 570 54068
News type	Inbrief
File link	http://www.fao.org/nr/water/
Source of information	FAO
Subject(s)	AGRICULTURE , HYDRAULICS - HYDROLOGY , INFORMATION - COMPUTER SCIENCES , METHTODOLOGY - STATISTICS - DECISION AID , POLICY-WATER POLICY AND WATER MANAGEMENT , RISKS AND CLIMATOLOGY , WATER DEMAND
Relation	http://www.semide.org/topics/agriculture
Geographical coverage	International
News date	05/03/2010
Working language(s)	ENGLISH

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