ICID e-Bulletin, 21 December 2015 Monday, 2015-December-21 
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
- International Convention on Agricultural Engineering, Las Dunas Hotel, Santa Maria Key, Villa Clara Province, Cuba, 22-25 March 2016.
Contact: Dr. C. Aymara Garcia Lópaz. E-mail: directorainvest@iagric.cu
- 4th African Regional Conference on Irrigation and Drainage (ARCID) on 'Agricultural Land and Water Management for Sustainability under Climate Variability', Cairo, Egypt, 26-28 April 2016. click here
- 2nd World Irrigation Forum and 67th IEC, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 6-12 November 2016.
- 13th International Drainage Workshop, on the theme Drainage and Environmental Sustainability, Ahwaz, Iran, 3-6 March 2017.
www.irncid.org; E-mail: irncid@gmail.com
- 68th IEC and 23rd ICID Congress on Irrigation and Drainage, 8-14 October 2017, on the theme: Modernizing Irrigation and Drainage for a new Green Revolution, Mexico City, Mexico, 8-14 October 2017
E-mail: cnm@mxcid.org, brobles@tlaloc.imta.mx, luis.rendon@cna.gob.mx, luis.rendon@conagua.gob.mx
AGRICULTURE
- JICA sees heightened Japanese interest in VN agriculture
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- India: NITI Aayog mulling big reforms in agriculture sector
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- 25 AL counties get USDA agriculture disaster designation
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CLIMATE CHANGE
- USDA takes climate change conversations to Colorado farmers
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- COP 21: Five ways climate change could affect Africa
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DRAINAGE
- USA: ISG Principal Appointed to Agricultural Drainage Management Coalition Board
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DROUGHTS
- 10 million people facing food shortages as drought grips Ethiopia
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FLOODS
- Indian economy suffers $3 billion loss from recent floods - Aon Benfield click here
FOOD SECURITY
- WTO talks: Kenya backs food security, farmers interests
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IRRIGATION
- India: Andhra Pradesh government allots 623 acres land to Jain Irrigation
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- Zambia: State to boost irrigation
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- Azerbaijan: Farmers can use drones for improving irrigation
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- South East Irrigation Scheme: Australia's most expensive irrigation scheme opens in Tasmania
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WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
- China Exclusive: Beijing needs more as water diversion eases thirst
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- How renewables could power Asia
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LATEST PUBLICATION(S)
- Bellwood-Howard, I., et al., 2015. Characteristics of urban and peri-urban agriculture in West Africa: results of an exploratory survey conducted in Tamale (Ghana) and Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso). Colombo, Sri Lanka: International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 38p. (IWMI Working Paper 163). click here
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