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UN Video library: Food security

2012

Press briefing on the occasion of World Water Day 2012. United Nations, New York
United Nations, March 2012
Duration: 37min35sec
UN press briefing on the occasion of World Water Day 2012 with the participation of Rolf Luyendijk, Senior Statistics and Monitoring Specialist, Statistics and Monitoring Section, The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Dr. Ania Grobicki, Executive Secretary Global Water Partnership, Ana Persic, Science Programme Specialist, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and Csaba Korosi, Permanent Representative of Hungary to the United Nations.

2011

Kenya: Water Scarcity
UN in Action, November 2011
Place: Kenya
Duration: 3min48sec
In Kenya, the International Atomic Energy Agency is helping farmers make the most of limited water resources. Innovative irrigation and nuclear techniques enable communities to grow stronger crops while protecting the environment.

Mauritania: Oasis Farmers
UN in Action, September 2011
Place: Mauritania
Duration: 3min15sec
Severe drought and desertification in Mauritania has forced many villagers to abandon their traditions and move to cities. A new project financed by the International Fund for Agricultural Development is helping find local solutions with the assistance of farmers from nearby Morocco.

Morocco's solution to water scarcity
FAO, June 2011
Place: Morocco
Duration: 3min30sec
Change is on the way for Morocco's approach to irrigation. Thanks to an FAO development project that brings together local farmers into water user groups, drip irrigation (letting water drip slowly to the roots of plants by means of a network of valves, pipes and emitters) is widespreading throughout the country. This means increasing yeld from crops, enhancing training programs to assist the transition, and less field work for women too.

Brazil Drylands: The Promise of Water
UNTV 21st Century, April 2011
Place: Brazil
Duration: 4min40sec
Desertification threatens almost half of the world's land. If left unchecked, its effects are disastrous. But in the drylands of Brazil, new hope is emerging: a project is educating farmers on a number of low cost time-proven methods of land cultivation and thus preventing desertification.

Benin: Rose's New Job
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), 2011
Place: Benin
Duration: 3min17sec
Benin's lakes and wetlands have been depleted of fish due to overfishing and destruction of mangroves and natural habitats. Now these lakes are being rehabilitated and fishermen and fish-sellers are finding alternative ways to make a living.

2008

Howa's Chance
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Place: Eritrea
Duration: 4min30sec
Volatile global food prices are taking a toll on food security in Eritrea. This short video looks at what an IFAD-support project is doing to improve local agricultural production and the role that women play in helping the country produce more food.

2007

Water: Source of Food Security
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Duration: 7min37sec
This video shows how drought, water scarcity and floods are affecting annual harvesting and food security in different regions (near Lake Malawi in Africa, Ecuador in Latin America, etc.) and how different FAO projects are helping to improve the situation in collaboration with local population.

Troubled Waters
International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Place: Jordan
Duration: 3min08sec
This video shows an IFAD-supported project in the south of Jordan that helps poor farmers better manage soil and water resources in one of the world's top ten water-poor countries.