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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