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	<title><![CDATA[ICID e-Bulletin, 21 December 2015]]></title>
	<link>http://www.rid.go.th/THAICID/_7_news/archive/index.php?number=277</link>
	<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://www.policyforum.net/how-renewables-could-power-asia/" class=p_link target=_blank><img src="http://www.rid.go.th/thaicid/_7_news/images/India_fields_and_wind_turbines.jpg"></a><BR><UL>
<B><U>FORTHCOMING EVENTS</U></B>
<LI>International Convention on Agricultural Engineering, Las Dunas Hotel, Santa Maria Key, Villa Clara Province, Cuba, 22-25 March 2016. <BR>Contact: Dr. C. Aymara Garcia L&#243;paz. E-mail: directorainvest@iagric.cu
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<LI>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. <a href="http://www.encid.org.eg" class=p_link target=_blank>click here</a></LI>
<LI><a href="http://www.worldirrigationforum.net" class=p_link target=_blank>2nd World Irrigation Forum and 67th IEC, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 6-12 November 2016.</a></LI>
<LI>13th International Drainage Workshop, on the theme ‘Drainage and Environmental Sustainability’, Ahwaz, Iran, 3-6 March 2017. <BR> www.irncid.org; E-mail: irncid@gmail.com
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<LI>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 <BR>E-mail: cnm@mxcid.org, brobles@tlaloc.imta.mx, luis.rendon@cna.gob.mx, luis.rendon@conagua.gob.mx
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<BR><B><U>AGRICULTURE</U></B>
<LI>JICA sees heightened Japanese interest in VN agriculture
 <a href="http://vietnamnews.vn/society/279959/jica-sees-heightened-japanese-interest-in-vn-agriculture.html" class=p_link target=_blank>click here</a></LI>
<LI>India: NITI Aayog mulling big reforms in agriculture sector
 <a href=" http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/policy/niti-aayog-mulling-big-reforms-in-agriculture-sector/articleshow/50187858.cms" class=p_link target=_blank>click here</a></LI>
<LI>25 AL counties get USDA agriculture disaster designation
 <a href=" http://www.wsfa.com/story/30718023/25-al-counties-get-usda-agriculture-disaster-designation" class=p_link target=_blank>click here</a></LI>
<BR><B><U>CLIMATE CHANGE
</U></B>
<LI>USDA takes climate change conversations to Colorado farmers
 <a href="https://www.cpr.org/news/story/usda-takes-climate-change-conversations-colorado-farmers" class=p_link target=_blank>click here</a></LI>
<LI>COP 21: Five ways climate change could affect Africa
 <a href=" http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-35054300" class=p_link target=_blank>click here</a></LI>
<BR><B><U>DRAINAGE</U></B>
<LI>USA: ISG Principal Appointed to Agricultural Drainage Management Coalition Board
 <a href="http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20151216006057/en/ISG-Principal-Appointed-Agricultural-Drainage-Management-Coalition" class=p_link target=_blank>click here</a></LI>
<BR><B><U>DROUGHTS</U></B>
<LI>10 million people facing food shortages as drought grips Ethiopia
 <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-10/drought-and-food-shortages-in-ethiopia/7015688 " class=p_link target=_blank>click here</a></LI>
<BR><B><U>FLOODS</U></B>
<LI>Indian economy suffers $3 billion loss from recent floods - Aon Benfield <a href=" http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2015-12-10/news/68930584_1_south-india-natural-disaster-events-aon-benfield" class=p_link target=_blank>click here</a></LI>
<BR><B><U>FOOD SECURITY</U></B>
<LI>WTO talks: Kenya backs food security, farmers’ interests
 <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/business/wto-ministerial-conference-kenya-backs-food-security-farmers-interests/article7992835.ece" class=p_link target=_blank>click here</a></LI>
<BR><B><U>IRRIGATION</U></B>
<LI>India: Andhra Pradesh government allots 623 acres land to Jain Irrigation
 <a href="http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/agriculture/andhra-pradesh-govt-allots-623-acres-land-to-jain-irrigation/articleshow/50182585.cms" class=p_link target=_blank>click here</a></LI>
<LI>Zambia: State to boost irrigation
 <a href=" https://www.daily-mail.co.zm/?p=52382" class=p_link target=_blank>click here</a></LI>
<LI>Azerbaijan: Farmers can use drones for improving irrigation
 <a href=" http://www.azernews.az/business/90678.html" class=p_link target=_blank>click here</a></LI>
<LI>South East Irrigation Scheme: Australia's most expensive irrigation scheme opens in Tasmania
 <a href=" http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-12-14/australias-most-expensive-irrigation-scheme-opened-in-tasmania/7027144" class=p_link target=_blank>click here</a></LI>
<BR><B><U>WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
</U></B>
<LI>China Exclusive: Beijing needs more as water diversion eases thirst
 <a href="http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-12/12/c_134910282.htm" class=p_link target=_blank>click here</a></LI>
<LI>How renewables could power Asia
 <a href="http://www.policyforum.net/how-renewables-could-power-asia/" class=p_link target=_blank>click here</a></LI>
<BR><B><U>LATEST PUBLICATION(S)</U></B>
<LI>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). <a href=" http://www.iwmi.cgiar.org/Publications/Working_Papers/working/wor163.pdf" class=p_link target=_blank>click here</a></LI>
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