Food

The main objective of the session is to promote the Water-Energy-Food-Environment Nexus approach for a sustainable response to development needs.
Specifically, it will aim to
- Promote a better understanding of the water-energy-food-environment nexus concept for the development of synergies;
- To map the relationships and mutual impacts between these different sectors;
- To bring out good practices and innovative solutions to make the Nexus approach operational;
- Define methods of cooperation to maximize the benefits of the nexus.

The overall objective is to empower smallholder farmers through a better involvement of women group within irrigation systems and water management. The session will document the challenges facing rural producers and women arena in terms of access and control of irrigation water for the sustainability of agricultural activities and market gardening.

The overall objective is to empower smallholder farmers through new paradigms to save water by using dirty rainwaters, domestic wastewaters or saline waters. These actual abandoned waters could be used to make equitable the access to productive waters. This session will provide tools to turn saving waters into a wealth-producing resource. Reasoned access to rainwater and wastewater represents a major innovative economic asset to empower small agriculture in rural and peri-urban systems.

The overall objective is to empower smallholder farmers through agroecological techniques to make access to productive waters sustainable and equitable. Provide the tools to turn saving water into a wealth-producing resource and disseminate improved agroecological techniques as tools to safeguard water and soils to benefit agricultural production.

Diffuse pollution and food losses are increasingly frequent and have a negative impact on the reduction of poverty and hunger in our countries. Their reduction will contribute to the improvement of producers' income, to the contribution to food security and to the creation of employment.