1. Water and Agriculture: 30 year Visions for the Environment

2. Characteristics of WAVE-30
Sectors: Water, Agriculture, Environment
Environmental footprints of
developments in food production
Looking 30 years ahead
Transparancy in developments and consequences
Solution finding at river basin scale

3. Why WAVE-30 ? Eradicating extreme poverty and hunger MDG 1
Ensure environmental sustainability
MDG 7
Partnership for development
MDG 8

4. Direct objectives Knowledge and transparancy Effective policy planning
Stakeholder participation
Capacity building

5. Two programme components
WAVE-global
- Global assessment
WAVE-basins
- 5 to 10 river basin cases

6. WAVE - Global

7. WAVE - basins Volta River Lake Victoria Mekong Mehanadi Incomati
Yellow River

8. Characteristics WAVE - basins
River basin and coastal areas
Environmental objectives river and coast
Scenarios for future economic development
Assessment – stakeholder dialogue
Solution finding - Policy options
Capacity building

9. Co-operation partners

10. A step forward in meeting …
MDG-s on poverty reduction and environmental sustainability
And implementation of IWRM and water efficiency plans in 2005

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