Water Scarcity, Climate Change and Conflict in the Middle East : Securing Livelihoods, Building Peace.

Cover -- Author Bio -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Background on the Middle East and North Africa Region -- The countries of the region -- Global and regional trends -- Part I CHALLENGES: The Challenge of Water Scarcity, Climate Change and Water-related Conflict -- 1. The Challenge of Water and Agriculture in the Middle East and North Africa and the Drivers of Water Scarcity -- Water resources and uses -- Climate and farming systems -- The contribution of agriculture -- Recent trends: an agriculture already under stress -- Agriculture and water -- Irrigation in the Middle East and North Africa -- Agricultural heritage and conservation -- Food security and agricultural water management -- Conclusion: drivers of scarcity and the challenge of water for agriculture -- 2. Climate Change and its Expected Impacts -- Climate change events anticipated in the Middle East and North Africa -- Expected impacts of climate change on agricultural water and farming -- 3. Water and Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa -- A deadly water conflict -- The nature and role of conflict in the water sector of the region -- Why does conflict so often arise over water? -- Types of water conflict in the region -- The challenge of transboundary water -- Conflict at the national or inter-sectoral level -- Conflict at the local level -- Factors exacerbating water conflict in the Middle East and North Africa -- Water and conflict in the Syrian crisis -- Part II OPTIONS: Responses to Water Scarcity, Climate Change and Water-related Conflict, and Options for the Future -- 4. Policies and Institutions for Managing Water Resources for Agriculture in the Middle East and North Africa -- Bringing integrated management to bear on agricultural water to promote efficiency.

Overall water governance and institutions in the Middle East and North Africa -- IWRM and the basin approach -- Subsidiarity, decentralization and participation -- Acting on the supply-side drivers of scarcity -- Groundwater depletion -- The incentive framework for promoting water use efficiency and water productivity in agriculture -- 5. Water Use Efficiency and Crop Water Productivity in Agricultural Water Management in the Middle East and North Africa -- Water use efficiency and water productivity -- Surface irrigation: increasing water use efficiency and closing the yield gap through modernization -- Pressurized irrigation and high value agriculture -- Sustainable groundwater irrigation -- Rainfed agriculture -- Watershed management and water management in the region's drylands -- Salinization, waterlogging and drainage -- 6. Adapting to Climate Change and Ensuring Food Security -- How farmers may adapt to climate change -- Adaptation options for farming systems -- Household-level livelihood strategies -- Strategies for adapting agriculture under climate change -- Regional and international dimensions -- Climate change mitigation and the agricultural carbon footprint -- Food security and climate change -- Coping with the food security crisis in Syria and other post-conflict countries in the region -- Conclusion -- 7. Water Conflict Resolution in the Middle East and North Africa -- Options for managing and resolving water conflict -- From conflict to cooperation on transboundary waters -- Transboundary cooperation in practice: the case of the West Bank aquifers -- Cooperation on the Nile: experience and lessons -- The problem of the Euphrates -- The cause and urgency of the Euphrates problem -- Resolving conflict through good water management within the nation -- Conclusion.

8. Beyond Conflict Resolution: Peacebuilding Through Water Governance in the Middle East and North Africa -- Peace, peacebuilding and 'environmental peacebuilding' -- Environmental peacebuilding strategy -- Capacities for collaborative governance -- Practicalities: taking advantage of the context -- Maximizing operational approaches -- Conclusion -- 9. An Agenda for Change -- Managing water resources for agriculture in the Middle East and North Africa: gaps and options -- Improving water use efficiency and crop water productivity -- Are these new approaches to agricultural water management? -- Scope to adapt to climate change -- Resolving conflict over water -- Syria and other crises in the region -- Peacebuilding -- Difficult policy choices and deciding on trade-offs -- Creating momentum for change -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

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