News from IFGR and the rivers

“The World Water Forum at Dakar must generate the impetus of individual and collective empowerment”.  With the 9th World Water Forum scheduled for 21 March 2022 at Dakar, Hamed Diane SEMEGA, the High Commissioner of the Senegal River Development Organisation (OMVS) and member of the IFGR, sheds light on the challenges of this meeting in order to […]

On Monday 28 February, the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) made the second section of its report public. It focuses on the study of impacts, and adaptation and vulnerability to climate change. In the middle of this document with more than 4,000 pages, is a chapter devoted to the threats that threaten water-dependent ecosystems […]

A celebration of life along the Thames   Chloe Dewe Mathews, a British photographer and filmmaker, spent five years taking photographs on the Thames, the emblematic river in the south of England that flows for nearly 350 km before reaching the North Sea. Five years spent capturing the variety of water, constantly changing nature and the […]

How can the world’s growing population be fed without exhausting the planet’s resources? The report  published at the end of 2021 by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) paints an alarming picture of the world’s soils and water, which are over-exploited and degraded, and growing disparities between farmers. It calls for new sustainable agricultural […]

According to the Mekong River Commission (MRC), the river is entering a fourth year of record drought. This situation would affect the food security of millions of vulnerable inhabitants who depend on farming and fishing practised around the river. Although it is mainly due to the acceleration of climate change and  the increase of warm […]

 The Amazon is a giant. Occupying 40% of the surface area of South America, it is the largest river basin in the world, composed of a hydrographic web of more than 1,000 rivers that feed the Amazon itself and increase its discharge, making it the most powerful of all rivers. The humidity emanating from it […]