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
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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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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