Webinar on Innovations for Food Security: The Business of Sustainable Land and Water Management

18 May 2011, 16:00 hrs GMT • Webinar on Innovations for Food Security: The Business of Sustainable Land and Water Management. ‘Webinars’, or Web-based seminars, are presentations or lectures transmitted over the Web. With support from IFAD, UNESCO-IHP-sponsored TheWaterChannel starts a series of Webinars on a variety of topics under three themes related to rural poverty alleviation: Access to Water, Groundwater Buffers for Climate Change Adaptation, and Sustainable Land Management.

handjeThe Webinars will be organised together with the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education and Cap-Net, and will feature some well-known experts on these topics. The Webinars will be collaborative; the participants will be able to communicate with the resource persons in real-time. Apart from lectures, there will be polls and question-answer sessions.

 

TheWaterChannel Webinar on 18 May 2011: Innovations for Food Security: The Business of Sustainable Land and Water Management

More than two-thirds of the global food production is based on rain-fed and flood-based low intensity farming. According to the Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture (by IWMI), this production system holds the biggest promise to meet the growing demand for food. In some parts of the world, the last fifteen years have seen major turn-arounds- landscapes and watersheds have been transformed, seeing higher food production and greater environmental protection. These experiences serve as major inspirations to other areas.

The webinar on 18 May 2011 discusses a number of such innovations in the management of land and water buffers; particularly the development of a number of new techniques, the scope for new financing mechanisms and the lessons from large turn-around programs. Facilitated by IFAD and the EU FP-7 WAHARA programme, this will be the first of TheWaterChannel webinars.

Speaker: Dr. Frank van Steenbergen, MetaMeta. Frank van Steenbergen has worked over the past twenty years in Water Resource Management and Local Development. He has been involved in both in on the ground project implementation and the preparation of policy documents such as Framework for Action (Second World Water Forum), Dialogue on Water Governance (Third World Water Forum) and the Review of Mainstreaming Water and Environment (DGIS).

 

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