ICID e-Bulletin, 28 April 2014 Tuesday, 2014-April-29 Managing water for sustainable agriculture
FORTHCOMING EVENTS
- 12th International Drainage Workshop, St. Petersburg, Russia, 23-26 June 2014
http://onlinereg.ru/IDW12 , E-mail: ruscid@mail.ru
- 22nd International Congress on Irrigation and Drainage, 14-20 September 2014, Gwangju Metropolitan City, Republic of Korea
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- Irrigation Australia will be organizing its 2014 Irrigation Conference and Exhibition on the theme “Water for Life, Future for All” from 2nd – 6th June 2014, Australia
http://www.irrigationaustralia.com.au
- Training Course: Multilevel Water Governance, The Hague, 30 June – 11 July, 2014
http://thehagueacademy.com/blog/2013/07/multilevel-water-governance
- 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.
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AGRICULTURE
- Kenya: Yawning food gap looms amid poor agriculture funding 23 April 2014
- Australia: Agricultural research extends carbon capture depths 21 April 2014
CLIMATE CHANGE
- USDA doles out $6 million for climate change studies 22 April 2014
DRAINAGE
- USA: Drainage district fact of life and farming for Pike County producers
23 April 2014
DROUGHTS
- El Niño is coming: here are 8 ways it will affect Australia, including a drought
24 April 2014
- NASA satellites show drought may take toll on Congo rainforest
23 April 2014
- Haiti’s current drought: An opportunity to build climate change resilience?
22 April 2014
FLOODS
- Tajikistan: Floods Emergency Plan of Action (EPoA) Operation n° MDRTJ017
18 April 2014
FOOD SECURITY
- U.S. Company agricultural deals undermining food security in Latin America
23 April 2014
- Self-sufficiency is bottom line for China's food security
23 April 2014
IRRIGATION
- Pakistan: EU-funded solar irrigation project inaugurated in Chitral
20 April 2014
LATEST PUBLICATION(S)
- FAO, 2014, Report 2013: Pesticide residues in food 2013 - Joint FAO/WHO Meeting on Pesticide Residues, FAO Plant Production and Protection Paper No. 219
WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
- China says more than half of its groundwater is polluted
23 April 2014
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ICID News update April 2014 Monday, 2014-April-21 Managing Water for Sustainable Agriculture
- Countdown Begins for Nominations : Heritage Irrigation Structure
- Invitation – 12th International Drainage Workshop (12 IDW)
- Drainage on Waterlogged Agricultural Areas
- Extension for Irrigation Water Management
- 22nd ICID Congress & 65th IEC Meeting 14 - 20 Sept. 2014
- Abstracts/ Papers
- ‘Early Bird’ Online Registration
- The ‘Round Table’ Meeting
- Side Events
- National Committees’ Display
- Contact coordinates
- News from ICID National Committees
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ICID e-Bulletin 21 April 2014 Monday, 2014-April-21 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
- Irrigation Australia will be organizing its 2014 Irrigation Conference and Exhibition on the theme “Water for Life, Future for All” from 2nd – 6th June 2014, Australia
- 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
- United States urges partner countries to increase support for the global agriculture and food security program
- Australia offers agriculture expertise
Climate Change
- Philippines: Climate change policy project launched
Drainage
- UK: Rain harvesting using Drain well drainage cells 15 April 2014
Droughts
- USA: Spring meteorology outlook for West Coast: California, Oregon, Washington, SW 11 April 2014
- Cyprus: Fear of worst drought on record
Floods
- Photo: Aerial view of flooding in Pakistan
Food Security
- Australia wants to be solution provider for UAE food security programme
- Support Sudan’s farmers to prevent food crisis from deteriorating: FAO
- Mekong delta tasked with ensuring Vietnam's food security
Irrigation
- India to expand irrigation to cut reliance on monsoon 14 April 2014
- Tanzania promotes commercial farming, irrigation schemes to boost rice production
- Pot fields in Columbia Basin, Yakima Valley might lack irrigation water
- Nepal: Irrigation and water resource management
Latest Publication
- FAO, Compendium of food additive specifications. Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives JECFA Monographs 14
Water Resources Management
- India should take a leaf out of Singapore's water harvesting to solve its crisis
ICID e-Bulletin 14 April 2014 Friday, 2014-April-18 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
- Irrigation Australia will be organizing its 2014 Irrigation Conference and Exhibition on the theme “Water for Life, Future for All” from 2nd – 6th June 2014, Australia
- 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
- Viet Nam's poor gains from participatory agriculture research and extension
- Namibia agriculture census in full swing
CLIMATE CHANGE
- Global climate change specialists, USDA/USAID
DRAINAGE
- Ireland: Less drainage needed for sustainable agriculture – Wildlife Trust
DROUGHTS
- Cyprus: Fear of worst drought on record
- USA: UC geographers develop a system to track the dynamics of drought
- New Zealand: Drought conditions 'worse than last year' for some NI farmers
- Drought begins to bite in Sri Lanka agriculture
FLOODS
- Dozens missing in Solomon Islands flash floods
FOOD SECURITY
- Food security essential for Africa’s poverty alleviation: experts
- Serious food insecurity in Canada’s remote aboriginal North
- Yemen, FAO discuss cooperation to achieve food security
- Australia's food security
IRRIGATION
- New Mexico's ancient irrigation systems help protect scarce water supply
- World Bank to allocate extra $150 million for irrigation project in Azerbaijan: negotiations scheduled for April 16
LATEST PUBLICATION
- FAO, 2014, Growing greener cities in Latin America and the Caribbean - An FAO report on urban and peri-urban agriculture in the region, FAO, Rome.
WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
- Kuwaiti envoy presents scientific paper at seminar on water resources
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ICID e-Bulletin 7 April 2014 Thursday, 2014-April-17 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
AGRICULTURE
- USA: California agriculture has bright future, despite drought
- World Bank's new agriculture project threatens food security, warn experts
CLIMATE CHANGE
- Climate change 'already affecting food supply' – UN
- Latin America: how climate change will wipe out coffee crops – and farmers
DRAINAGE
- USA: Drainage water management new option from NRCS
DROUGHTS
- New Mexico's huge pecan harvest, a bright spot during severe drought
FLOODS
- Global food security: could wheat feed the world?
- Developing food security in Kyrgyzstan
- FAO provides funds to improve food security in six African countries
IRRIGATION
- Drip irrigation in Cuban sugarcane plantations doubles yields
LATEST PUBLICATION(S)
- McCarthy, Nancy; Kilic, Talip, 2014, The nexus between gender, collective action for public goods, and agriculture: evidence from Malawi, The World Bank, Policy Research Working Paper No. WPS 6806.
WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
- Iran: Tehran province faces critical water shortage
- UNESCO, Sweden, SIWI launch International Centre for Water Cooperation
- The Third World’s drinking problem
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