What does male migration have to do with water scarcity in Central Asia?

About 60 percent of the region’s people are employed by the agricultural sector, which depends almost entirely on irrigation.

New report paints a worrying picture, provides recommendations on what can be done.

Time for smart dam design and operation to combat malaria in Africa.

Engineers need to rethink how to design and operate dams after research found that they create an additional 1.1 million cases of malaria every year.

“Decolonizing” formal water law to pave the way for smallholder irrigation

Farmer-led irrigation offers one of sub-Saharan Africa’s brightest prospects for defeating chronic hunger and making good on the promise of a more sustainable and resilient future.

Toward a decision-making framework for two of Africa’s transboundary basins.

As Laos seeks to strengthen food security and rural livelihoods, while adapting agriculture to climate change impacts, the potential of groundwater irrigation can only grow. Lessons learned from IWMI’s pilot study should prove valuable for helping realize this potential.

IWMI joins a major UK-funded effort to find solutions.

Soil erosion can have a devastating impact on traditional farming landscapes in developing countries. But its effects can only be fully addressed through significant advances in interdisciplinary scientific and societal approaches, according to new research.

Is joint management of Kabul River by Pakistan and Afghanistan possible as the orphan river finds few takers?

New rounds of pilot testing and post-flood recovery in India.

IWMI study calls for investment in the social capital and capabilities of women and marginalized people.

Could women be the source of change? Advances in women’s representation in government show much promise.

How farmers have taken charge of their destiny by using motor pumps for irrigation.

IRRI, WorldFish and IWMI have signed a 5-year agreement that provides the framework for cooperative research.

Taking stock of a widespread water intervention in Africa.

Achieving food and nutrition security, reducing inequality, and preserving terrestrial ecosystems.

A recent study sheds new light on the climate-groundwater relationship, finding that the 2015-2016 El Niño weather event replenished groundwater very differently in southern Africa and in East Africa just below the equator.

New report suggests national leaders make water security a priority now, link water policy to other national policies, from agriculture to trade, and put in place water-sharing institutions early.

Indian farmers take aim at climate disasters through bundling high-tech solutions.

In the Omo-Turkana and Zambezi basins in Africa, complex relationships emerge from the balances struck among hydropower generation, irrigated agriculture, water quality and environmental flows.

Farmers in Sri Lanka are positioned to benefit from a new policy that recognizes waste from septic tanks as an untapped resource. 

Union Health Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan asserted that doubling rate of COVID-19 cases has increased from three days before imposition of lockdown in March to 9.

No new coronavirus positive cases were reported from any of the eight northeastern states in the past 24 hours even as several people, who had earlier

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said that it has conducted over 3 lakh eighty thousand corona tests so far in the country. Addressing media, Dr.

The Centre has launched online data pool of human resource, comprising details of doctors, other healthcare professionals and auxiliary help, to fight against COVID-19.

Before the lockdown and 30 days into the lockdown, India's coronavirus positivity rate has remained constant at 4.5 per cent, the Centre said on Thursday.

India has donated USD 5 million worth of medicines and related supplies to the world till now to combat COVID-19 pandemic. Sources in the ministry

Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan on Friday said we have saved India from going into Stage 3 or community transmission stage, and have also fared better than many countries.

1 lakh+ PPE kits and N95 masks are being manufactured everyday in the country said the Union Health Ministry. ventilators vide domestic manufacturers

Four of the eight northeastern states - Tripura, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim had become coronavirus free. According to the health officials,

There is no spike in fever and pneumonia cases, no flooding of ICUs with patients. Data-sets indicate there is nothing to suggest a large-scale spread of viral infection in the country.

Tamil Nadu is expecting central government's permission for plasma trials in a week's time for treating COVID-19 patients. Speaking to reporters,

77 per cent of people in India wish to have dinner with friends and family at their favourite restaurants. The survey conducted by restaurant tech

New Delhi, May 3 (ICMR) Million RT-PCR tests for novel coronavirus have been conducted so far in India. In a press statement the apex medical research

The Delhi government has stepped up its efforts in order to protect its officials and employees from coronavirus pandemic. Nikhil Kumar, who is currently

Number of novel coronavirus cases in India soared to 46,433 with 32,138 active cases, despite a 40-days and above lockdown period completed in an effort to contain the spread of the COVID-19.

Coronavirus in Maharashtra has spread like a wildfire to infect a whopping 19,063 persons in only 60 days, stated sources. Since the past five days

A new technology developed by scientists was found to help reveal the inner workings of individual cancer cells - potentially identifying more effective treatment combinations for people with cancer.

New study published online today by Nature Communications revealed which patients with ovarian cancer won't benefit from immune-PARP combo. The study

Liver cancer is rising around the world, despite preventive measures, according to the study published online in iCANCER/i, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society (ACS).

African-American men who are at high risk of prostate cancer, are less likely to use a more targeted biopsy option for detecting prostate cancer, according

EGR4 molecule known mainly for its role in male fertility was also found to serve as an important brake on immune activation, said researchers at the

Medication used to treat non-small cell lung cancer that has metastasized, may benefit patients with metastatic brain cancers, according to a new review and analysis led by researchers at St.

New study developed a novel way to make blood stem cells present in the umbilical cord 'more transplantable' that could improve the treatment of a wide range of blood diseases in kids and adults.

New type of immunotherapy that targets macrophages has undergone preliminary testing on mice and shows promise for the future treatment of ovarian cancer.

Immune cells of the host exposed to nanoparticles induced an anti-cancer immune response by activating T cells that invaded and slowed tumor growth, said

There are no targeted therapies or immunotherapies proven effective to treat pediatric brain cancer better than chemotherapy. In fact, chemotherapy has