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
click here 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
click here ICID e-Bulletin 31 March 2014 • Monday, 2014-March-31 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
- 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
- Global Agriculture Machinery Market 2014-2018
CLIMATE CHANGE
- Climate change will cause lower crop yields than expected and threaten global food security
- USA: Climate change will reduce crop yields sooner
DRAINAGE
- USA: Cut drought, drown-out risk with drainage improvement, additional irrigation
DROUGHTS
- Desperately seeking solutions to worst drought in decades in Brazil
FLOODS
- UK: Somerset floods: Charity defends using farmer to highlight climate change campaign
FOOD SECURITY
- World unprepared for climate damage to food security
- The first atlas for national development and food security launched In Iraq
- UN agencies agree on joint programming to boost food security in Yemen
IRRIGATION
- USA: Conserving water goal of Sustainable Irrigation Project in Mississippi
- Drip irrigation makes slow gains in Pakistan
- Columbia Irrigation District lets water flow
LATEST PUBLICATION
- The World Water Development Report 2014
Volume 1: Water and Energy
Volume 2: Facing the Challenges
WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
- Rwanda celebrates World Water Day calling for sustainable use of water resources
- India, Singapore win 2014 UN Water for Life award
- FAO urges to save water resources to fight hunger
- GWP launches 2020 strategy
- OECD workshop takes stock of water sector transparency
click here ICID e-Bulletin 24 March 2014 • Tuesday, 2014-March-25 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
- 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
- IFAD and EU join hands to boost sustainable agriculture and food security in Kenya
CLIMATE CHANGE
- Climate change increasingly impacting Africa
- UK: Climate change will reduce crop yields sooner than we thought
DRAINAGE
- USA: Concordia plants seeds of drainage
DROUGHTS
- Haiti drought causing an extreme emergency; two harvest seasons lost
- USA: Arizona closing in on two decades of drought
- Underground dams the solution to Australia's drought problems
FLOODS
- UK ‘green’ policies lead to floods, ruin of farmers
FOOD SECURITY
- Sub-Saharan Africa faces unprecedented food crisis
IRRIGATION
- Somalia farmers reaping from irrigation
- Philippines should invest in irrigation to reduce rice production costs, says Agriculture Secretary
- Kyrgyzstan resolves disputes over irrigation issues
- Argentina aims to double irrigation to bolster grain output
LATEST PUBLICATION
- IFPRI, 2013 Global Food Policy Report, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington,
D.C., 2014
WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT
- World Water Day: Care continues to flow for our world’s water resources
- India may become a water-scarce country by 2020: CDP
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