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COMCEC Agriculture Outlook 2016

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Figure 22. Renewable Water Potential in the OIC by Sub-Regions

Source: Calculated by using AQUASTAT and FAOSTAT

As to OIC Member Countries, they have 7,261 km

3

/year of renewable water resources

for the period 2013-2017 that accounts for 13.3 percent of the world’s total. Taking into

account the OIC Member Countries have 28 percent of world’s total agricultural area, the

majority of the Member Countries are under the water scarcity. This situation can be clearly

understood from Figure 22. It reveals that average renewable water resources per hectare of

agricultural land in the OIC are 5,199 m3/ha, which is lower than half of the world’s average.

At the sub-regional level, renewable water resources disperse unequally in the OIC.

Moreover, the share of renewable water resources to the agricultural land varies considerably

among its sub-regions. While Asian Group having 71 percent of renewable water resources in

the OIC, possess 9,965 m

3

/ha renewable water for per hectare agricultural land, Arab Group

owes 4 percent of renewable water resources with 554 m

3

/ha renewable water for per hectare

of agricultural land.

Since OIC Member Countries are dispersed over a large geographical region, on four

continents and have wide range of climate conditions, big differences are seen at the country

level regarding amount of renewable water. In terms of their renewable water resources per

hectare of agricultural land, some OIC Member Countries are very rich while most of them are

under water-scarcity.

Table 7 and Table 8 indicate renewable water-rich OIC Member Countries and

renewable water-poor OIC Member Countries, respectively. Analyzing Table 7, it is seen that

Suriname, Brunei Darussalam have relatively high level of water resource per hectare of

agricultural land. This situation can be explained by their very low level of agricultural land;

even they do not have high renewable water resources. They are followed by Guyana,

Bangladesh, Malaysia, Sierra Leone, Indonesia, Gabon, Cameroon, and Albania.

5.079

554

9.965

5.199

11.114

% 25.0

% 4.0

% 71.0

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

0

2.000

4.000

6.000

8.000

10.000

12.000

African Group Arab Group Asian Group OIC Average

World

Percent

m

3

/ha

Renewable Water Resources Per Hectare (left axis)

Share of RWR in the OIC (right axis)