ICID e-Bulletin 27 January 2014 • Wednesday, 2014-January-29 Managing water for sustainable agriculture
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
- 12th International Drainage Workshop, St. Petersburg, Russia, 23-26 June 2014
- 22nd
International Congress on Irrigation and Drainage, 14-20 September 2014, Gwangju
Metropolitan City, Republic of Korea
AGRICULTURE
- Agricultural crisis in Pakistan
- AFRICA – Accelerating investments for an agricultural revolution
CLIMATE CHANGE
- Cameroon: Climate change impacts cotton: Productivity up by 2050
- Climate change alters land map of India
DRAINAGE
- USA: Agricultural drainage design workshops set for Wahpeton and Crookston
DROUGHTS
- Agriculture responds to California drought emergency declaration
FLOODS
- Indonesia: Floods threaten crops, disrupt Pantura traffic
- USA: 2014 Colorado legislation: Drought, floods, USFS taking of water rights
FOOD SECURITY
- Sudan: Farmers' Union announces support to President food security initiative
- Interview: FAO to boost efforts to improve food security in Somalia: envoy
- Food security, rural environment top China's policy agenda in 2014
- India: Seven states, union territories get National Food Security Act allocations
IRRIGATION
- Netafim to build largest India’s drip-irrigation project
- Costa Rica: Major crop irrigation project planned in Guanacaste
- Oman's modern irrigation project to tide over water scarcity in Mudhaibi begins
- USA: USDA Survey focuses on irrigation
LATEST PUBLICATION
- Aziz Elbehri (ed.), 2013, Rebuilding West Africa's Food Potential: Policies and market incentives
for smallholder-inclusive food value chains, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations (FAO)
WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
- Sri Lanka Water Resources Information System launched
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- Best Performing National Committee Award (2014)
- Best Performing Workbody Award (2014)
- WatSave Awards 2014
- Drainage on Wetland Agricultural Areas
- Know your National Committees
- 22nd ICID Congress & 65th IEC Meeting 14-20 Sept. 2014, Gwangju Metropolitan City, South Korea
- Online Paper Submission for 22nd ICID Congress
- Visit of New VP to ICID Central Office
- Scholarship for Young Professionals
- Brainstorming Session on Drought Early Warning Systems
- Executive Secretary Dr. S.A. Kulkarni retires
- News from ICID National Committees
- Forthcoming Events :: ICID Events
- Take advantage of Irrigation
and Drainage Online
click hereICID e-Bulletin 20 January 2014 • Tuesday, 2014-January-21 Managing water for sustainable agriculture
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
- 12th International Drainage Workshop, St. Petersburg, Russia, 23-26 June 2014
AGRICULTURE
- Sierra Leone Chamber for Agribusiness Development (SLeCAD) signs Agribusiness Development MOU
- Investment in agriculture seed market can boost economy
- South Korea's agriculture exports inch up 1.4 pct in 2013
CLIMATE CHANGE
- Climate change dims Philippines' prospect of achieving food security
DRAINAGE
- USA: Agricultural drainage leads to environmental concerns
DROUGHTS
- Heat wave continues to fry Australia; extreme droughts in Europe expected
FLOODS
- UK faces yet more rain and floods [VIDEO]
FOOD SECURITY
- Rwanda talks tackle food security
- China eyes new food security ratios
- UN's FAO teams up to combat food insecurity in Asia-Pacific
IRRIGATION
- New water project to modernise irrigation systems
- USDA surveys Iowa farmers on irrigation practices
- $37 million worth program to modernize Armenia’s irrigation system commences
- Zambia in $115m irrigation boost
- USA: NASS conducting irrigation survey
LATEST PUBLICATION
- Aziz Elbehri (ed.), 2013, Rebuilding West Africa food potential - Policies and Private Initiatives to Promote Smallholder-Inclusive Staple Food Value Chains
WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
- South Asia taps into water cooperation
click here ICID e-Bulletin 13 January 2014 • Monday, 2014-January-20 Managing water for sustainable agriculture
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
- 12th International Drainage Workshop, St. Petersburg, Russia, 23-26 June 2014
AGRICULTURE
- Improving agriculture in Nigeria: Lessons from China
CLIMATE CHANGE
- Climate change adaptation takes root in Peruvian coffee farms
DRAINAGE
- Pakistan: Move for farmers’ participation in canal management
DROUGHTS
- Droughts could economically wreck southern Europe by 2100: Study predicts high costs of gobal
warming
- South Africa: Worst drought in more than 80 years
FLOODS
- USA: Incredible Black and White Photographs of The 1934 Floods in Los Angeles
FOOD SECURITY
- Fighting food insecurity in Afghanistan
IRRIGATION
- USDA surveys on-farm irrigation practices
- Saudi agricultural company to invest in Sudan, says Executive Director
- Romania re-starts irrigation water channel project approved just before fall of communism
- Zambia: Irrigation project to benefit 7,000 farmers
- Irrigation projects in Serbia to be launched soon
LATEST PUBLICATION
- FAO, 2013, Mountain farming is family farming: A contribution from mountain areas to the
International Year of Family Farming 2014
WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
- Predicting the future of global water stress
- China to boost spending on water conservation projects in 2014
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"Best Wishes for a Happy, prosperous and fruitful New Year 2014"
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
- 12th International Drainage Workshop, St. Petersburg, Russia, 23-26 June 2014.
AGRICULTURE
- China to modernize agriculture in new reform bid
- Haiti - Agriculture: Towards a national policy of funding and agricultural insurance in 2014
- African agriculture needs trade not aid
CLIMATE CHANGE
- USA: Climate change no threat for desert plants
DRAINAGE
- USA: Farm Bureau asks for state money to close agricultural drainage wells
DROUGHTS
- USA: California drought 2014: Global warming to blame for dry weather?
FLOODS
- USA: Floods, drought and tornadoes all part of 2013 weather
FOOD SECURITY
- FAO warns of potential food security crisis as security situation in the Central African Republic
worsens
- China arable land area above food security red-line
- IFAD, FAO, WFP tackle global food losses
IRRIGATION
- India: World's largest integrated micro irrigation project awarded to Jain Irrigation Systems
Limited (JISL)
LATEST PUBLICATION
- Wood, Benjamin, et al, 2013, Agricultural Commercialization, Rising Food Prices and Stunting in
Malawi, The World Bank, Washington, D.C., Policy Research Working Paper 6650.
WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
- India: Cabinet set to OK inter-linking of Ken-Betwa Rivers today
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