From: Yona Maro

Cooperation on land and water resources is motivated by scarcity and degradation and economics. There is a need to increase access and productivity, and ensure land and water remain a conduit for agricultural and economic growth and for the general advancement of human well-being. The United Nations system plays an important and unique role in international cooperation in regard to the management of land and water resources. It has facilitated a series of key meetings on the topic and helped establish a range of international organizations and programmes focussing on enhanced management and improved support to land and water.

As a result, international cooperation on land and water has picked up, particularly after the 1972 Stockholm Conference and the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). Several UN agencies including the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Bretton Woods Institutions hold the mandate or share responsibilities for promoting and coordinating natural resources and environmental policies and activities.

http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/templates/solaw/files/thematic_reports/TR_16_web.pdf

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