Managing water for sustainable agriculture

• Moroccan agriculture becomes a booming sector for Spanish investors
• Burundi: Agriculture sector taps into Belgian funds
• Kenyan farmers urged to adopt scientific methods to improve livestock yields
• AfDB addresses climate change in Africa
• Interview: Africans should be more proactive facing climate change: expert
• USA: Levee breaks huge expense for Green River Drainage District
• Threat of drought eases in northern Taiwan: water agency
• New Mexico: Drought, limited water supply present challenges
• K-Water to make last-day decision on flood project
• U.S. Midwest floods delay corn sowing after drought curbed crop
• USAID, water, and food security
• Japan donation helps boost food security in Lesotho
• FAO’s panel on genetic resources adopts standards key for food security
• Pakistan: New irrigation schemes for farmers in offing: Gurezi
• As the Brahmaputra bends - India must use the upswing in ties with China to secure a legal agreement

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Managing water for sustainable agriculture

• Poverty reduction and agriculture programmes in Sudan
• India: Crop production will double in three years, says Agriculture Minister
• Africa aims to combat climate change by greening the desert
• Climate change responsible for global vegetation change
• UK: Somerset farmers demand river dredging action as flood solution
• Report: Global warming didn't cause big US drought
• Floods shut Mississippi, Illinois River locks: Army Corps
• Australian food security mission To China
• Bahamas to learn agriculture processes from Jamaica
• ICRISAT, ISRA, CORAF/WECARD's Partnership Day highlights food security
• Ghana: Upper Manya needs irrigation system to boost food production – Stakeholders
• Zimbabwe: Govt eyes irrigation law to boost farm sector
• India: Digital maps of Kerala Rivers to help water management
• Bangladesh, Nepal, India to make most of Ganga water
• South Asian countries need to work on sound water resources management

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Managing water for sustainable agriculture

• New Zealand: Growing interest prompts Precision Agriculture workshop
• Women role in agriculture for major USAID uplift effort
• Food security and agriculture crucial for African development
• Climate change projects in Northern Ghana said not to be doing well
• Eight steps to climate-proof development in Africa
• Climate change reshaping agriculture in Eastern Europe
• Corps of Engineers begins $48M underground drainage project in New Orleans
• Drought in Namibia deepens, according to Namibia crop prospect and food security situation report
• New Zealand: Drought shows need for irrigation projects
• India: Punjab CM takes stock of flood control measures
• ICRISAT and Senegal strengthen partnership for food and nutrition security
• UAE: Food security and water use are linked
• Nigeria to join new alliance for global food security
• Italy gives Kenya one billion for Kerio farm irrigation
• Pakistan: Facilitating agriculture: 4,449 feet deep irrigation channel inaugurated
• Judicious water management must for India: President
• WSRW denounces depletion of underground water reserves of Western Sahara by Morocco
• Arunachal, Bangladesh discuss management of Brahmaputra

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Managing water for sustainable agriculture

• India: Organic farming to usher evergreen revolution in country: M S Swaminathan
• RPT- Australian agriculture faces extreme weather risk -report
• African nations increase agriculture spending to combat poverty
• Climate change to affect Mekong production
• Canada defends pulling out of UN convention on droughts; climate change a factor
• Guyana allocates US$43mn for drainage, water supply in 2013
• India: Maharashtra needs to formulate a Drought Code: MS Swaminathan
• USA: System to restore wetlands to reduce massive floods, aid crops
• Rwanda: Low developing countries warned over food insecurity
• IRD promotes food security and nutrition in Mali
• Pakistan: Use of modern irrigation techniques to help save water
• India: Centre pumps in Rs 270cr for 10 irrigation projects in Maharashtra
• Drip irrigation in Burkina Faso
• China’s disappearing rivers: Study hints at widespread water crisis
• Water quality: An ignored global crisis
• Water in Singapore: the challenges ahead: Changing social attitudes towards water use and conservation is the most important one
• The problem of water management
• Integrated Water Resources Management in the Fergana Valley

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นายชัยวัฒน์ ปรีชาวิทย์ รองประธาน ICID และนายเลิศวิโรจน์ โกวัฒนะ อธิบดีกรมชลประทาน ในฐานะประธาน THACID ดร.สมเกียรติ ประจำวงษ์ เลขาธิการTHAICID และเจ้าหน้าที่ THAICID และกรมชลประทาน ได้ให้การต้อนรับคณะผู้แทนจากคณะกรรมการด้านการชลประทานและการระบายน้ำแห่งสาธารณรัฐเกาหลี (KCID) และคณะทำงานจัดงาน หรือ the National Organizing Committee (NOC) ประกอบด้วย Dr. Jung Hwan Park, Director General of RRI, Vice Chairman of KCID, Mr. Bong Hoon Lee, Executive Director of Saemangeum Project Division, Korea Rural Community Corporation, Dr. Jin Taek Kim, Director of Water Resources Research team, RRI, Mr. Kwang Don Koh, Deputy director of Water resources team และ Mr. Chung เพื่อหารือและเตรียมงานการประชุม “2014 ICID Gwangju Congress” ซึ่งจะจัดขึ้นระหว่างวันที่ 14-20 กันยายน 2557 ที่เมือง Gwangju สาธารณรัฐเกาหลี