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
• Training Course: Multilevel Water Governance, The Hague, 30 June – 11 July, 2014
• International Conference on Water and Energy Interactions: Strategic challenges to territorial development and their impacts on food and health, 29-30 October, 2014, Lyon, France. Call for Paper Now Open Until April 15

AGRICULTURE
• Global Agriculture Machinery Market 2014-2018

CLIMATE CHANGE
• Climate change will cause lower crop yields than expected and threaten global food security
• USA: Climate change will reduce crop yields sooner

DRAINAGE
• USA: Cut drought, drown-out risk with drainage improvement, additional irrigation

DROUGHTS
• Desperately seeking solutions to worst drought in decades in Brazil

FLOODS
• UK: Somerset floods: Charity defends using farmer to highlight climate change campaign

FOOD SECURITY
• World unprepared for climate damage to food security
• The first atlas for national development and food security launched In Iraq
• UN agencies agree on joint programming to boost food security in Yemen

IRRIGATION
• USA: Conserving water goal of Sustainable Irrigation Project in Mississippi
• Drip irrigation makes slow gains in Pakistan
• Columbia Irrigation District lets water flow

LATEST PUBLICATION
• The World Water Development Report 2014
Volume 1: Water and Energy
Volume 2: Facing the Challenges

WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
• Rwanda celebrates World Water Day calling for sustainable use of water resources
• India, Singapore win 2014 UN Water for Life award
• FAO urges to save water resources to fight hunger
• GWP launches 2020 strategy
• OECD workshop takes stock of water sector transparency

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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
• Training Course: Multilevel Water Governance, The Hague, 30 June – 11 July, 2014
• International Conference on Water and Energy Interactions: Strategic challenges to territorial development and their impacts on food and health, 29-30 October, 2014, Lyon, France. Call for Paper Now Open Until April 15

AGRICULTURE
• IFAD and EU join hands to boost sustainable agriculture and food security in Kenya

CLIMATE CHANGE
• Climate change increasingly impacting Africa
• UK: Climate change will reduce crop yields sooner than we thought

DRAINAGE
• USA: Concordia plants seeds of drainage

DROUGHTS
• Haiti drought causing an extreme emergency; two harvest seasons lost
• USA: Arizona closing in on two decades of drought
• Underground dams the solution to Australia's drought problems

FLOODS
• UK ‘green’ policies lead to floods, ruin of farmers

FOOD SECURITY
• Sub-Saharan Africa faces unprecedented food crisis

IRRIGATION
• Somalia farmers reaping from irrigation
• Philippines should invest in irrigation to reduce rice production costs, says Agriculture Secretary
• Kyrgyzstan resolves disputes over irrigation issues
• Argentina aims to double irrigation to bolster grain output

LATEST PUBLICATION
• IFPRI, 2013 Global Food Policy Report, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, D.C., 2014

WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
• World Water Day: Care continues to flow for our world’s water resources
• India may become a water-scarce country by 2020: CDP

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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
• USA: Agriculture companies launch effort to standardize, secure farm data
• China to boost agricultural subsidies, lift grain capacity

CLIMATE CHANGE
• Philippines: How climate change threatens our food security
• USA: An optimistic solution to climate change in ‘Soil Will Save Us’

DRAINAGE
• USA: NRCS offers drainage water management

DROUGHTS
• Study predicts future droughts for NZ
• Japan sees higher chance of El Nino this summer
• Indonesian volcanic eruptions may cause southern China drought, expert says
• Huge tract of Australia in biggest ever drought

FLOODS
• Mozambique holds rate steady as floods destroy farmland
• USA: Hydrologist warns of floods if snow melts quickly

FOOD SECURITY
• Guyana offer lands to help Caribbean regional food security
• Food shortage a risk to world security - UN

IRRIGATION
• New Zealand: Irrigation scheme ready for investors
• Philippines: Bago irrigation system intended for rice lands

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, Rome

WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
• World Water Day on March 22 underscores inter-linkages of water and energy Singapore: How to keep the taps running Infrastructure of water security in India

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8th International Climate Change Conference: London 23-27 May 2014.
Conference Focus

A major international conference on Climate Change will be held in London, England on May, 23-27, 2014.The conference is for any one with an interest in, and concern for, scientific, policy and strategic perspectives in climate change. It will address a range of critically important themes relating to the vexing question of climate change. Plenary speakers will include some of the world’s leading thinkers in the fields of climatology and environmental science, as well as numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by researchers and practitioners. We are inviting proposals for paper presentations, workshops/interactive sessions, posters/exhibits, or colloquia. Virtual participation is available for those who are unable to attend the conference in person. Proposal ideas that extend beyond these thematic areas below will also be considered:

Theme 1: Scientific Evidence

Theme 2: Assessing Impacts in Divergent Ecosystems

Theme 3: Human Impacts and Impacts on Humans

Theme 4: Technical, Political and Social Responses

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ICID International Drainage Workshop
23-26 June, 2014, St. Petersburg, Pushkin, Russia

Workshop Scientific program will cover the following topics:
• New equipment and modern technology drainage construction in wetlands
• Efficiency of the use of reclaimed land and socio-economic aspects of the use of reclaimed land
• Drinage design and methods of calculating
• Advanced training of specialists: constructors and engineers in the field of drinage systems managment and operation
• An integrated approach to the management of drainage and environmental protection
• Using reclaimed land for agricultural purposes
• History of the drainage system development

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