THE ROLE OF GEOSPATIAL WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FOR SUSTAINABLE LAND USE IN AFRICA
CHRISTIAN TOTTRUP, NORMAN KIESSLICH et all
Water plays an essential and crosscutting role in the sustainable management of land use – in particular in the context of agriculture as 70% of freshwater is used for irrigation, but also for erosion, natural hazards such as floods and resilience to climate change. The successful implementation and monitoring of Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) initiatives is one major contribution to sustainable land use but requires access to reliable data and information on water related issues. There is a growing awareness that Earth Observation (EO) data has the potential to serve these geospatial data needs especially in the context of International Financing Institutions (IFIs) and Official Developing Assistance (ODA) normally operating in regions where policies and management decisions are often based on sparse and unreliable information. In this presentation, we provide examples on how Earth Observation is supporting World Bank funded development projects on the African continent in order to promote sustainable land and water management practices and as support for the monitoring requirements of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Event: Land Governance in an Interconnected World_Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty_2018
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