Last week the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and the Australian Center for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) jointly hosted a two-day workshop on agricultural water (AgWater) in Cambodia. It has made me think more about how …
The past six years have initiated an extraordinary period in history when slowly developing constraint on growth – the availability of land and water resources – shocked those responsible for food security. A global credit crunch swamped economies …
“If it bleeds it leads” goes an old newspaper adage. Maybe that explains the perennial popularity of “water wars” in articles written by journalists, academics and national security wonks. More specifically it’s “the prospect” of conflict…
World Water Day is celebrated annually on March 22nd. This year’s theme, water cooperation, often evokes images of water treaties being signed between countries. Indeed a lot has been written about cooperation among countries in managing their shar…
