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Making Wins in Irrigation: What Have We Learned

20 January 2016
This presentation examines Asian Development Bank’s investments on irrigation in Asia and the Pacific region. In addition to performance figures, it discusses learnings gained from completed programs, and insights gathered on how best to proceed in meeting objectives.

Who's Growing Tomorrow's Food?

20 January 2016
Majority of the youth have left Nepal to seek better employment opportunities in foreign countries. This video shows how the leftover population in the country are learning sustainable agriculture and conserving limited water resources and precious soil to produce tomorrow’s food.

The Energy Effect of Urban Water Security, Lessons from the Australian Millennium Drought, and Related Analysis

8 December 2015
Urban water supply and use have a large energy impact. Rising energy use and cost also pose signficant risks to the water sector. Better understanding and management of the links between water and energy could help countries formulate a sustainable, whole-system approach that would ensure water…

Moving Forward with Clean Energy - Knowledge Sharing Webinar Series

7 December 2015
Priyantha Wijayatunga, ADB's Principal Energy Specialist, discusses clean energy development issues and trends in this webinar presentation.
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Moving Forward with Clean Energy - Knowledge Sharing Webinar Series

7 December 2015
Priyantha Wijayatunga, ADB's Principal Energy Specialist, discusses clean energy development issues and trends in this webinar presentation.

ADB Preparing the Dili Urban Services Improvement Sector Project Technical Assistance 8750

1 December 2015
Up to 10 billon metric tons of solid waste is generated annually from urban households, commerce, industry, and construction globally. This is bound to increase further as populations grow and migration from rural to urban areas occurs with wealth and consumption inevitably rising, prompting the…

Revitalizing Irrigation Performance: Lessons from Asia

18 November 2015
Increasing global water requirements and existing drivers of change in the allocation and use of available water resources pose a growing concern. This document analyzes the constraints to better performance of irrigation schemes and solutions. It also discusses the current situation, challenges,…

Low Carbon Development: Moving Ideas to Political and Financial Viability

13 November 2015
Center for Climate Strategies’ Scott Williamson and Stephen Roe explain the low carbon development planning and analysis system that their organization has been developing over the past years. In this session video, they discuss what the system does, what the organization has been doing with it,…

Low Carbon Development: Moving Ideas to Political and Financial Viability

13 November 2015
Center for Climate Strategies’ Scott Williamson and Stephen Roe share their insights on low carbon development (LCD), highlighting its importance and benefits. In this video interview, they explain the aspects of human life that are directly associated with it, and the stakeholders that should be…

Session Video - Urban Development and Regional Cooperation and Integration: Where is the Interface?

9 November 2015
Asian Development Bank (ADB)’s Pradeep Srivastava, in this presentation, provides a brief overview of regional cooperation and integration (RCI). He highlights the importance of recognizing space in regional cooperation, which produces a different type of RCI. The applications that have become the…