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ICID e-Bulletin Your Weekly News Wrap 18 January 2021

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icid@icid.org                                                                                  18 January 2021

A Webinar on “General challenges of irrigation scheme management under different scales with special consideration of institutional and organizational aspects of system management’’ by A. HAFIED A. GANY will be held on 21 January 2021 at 17:30 (IST).

Click for direct access on https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2471305627791632400

 

International Journal on Irrigation and Drainage Online Issue 69.5, December 2020 published. 

Click for direct access on http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1531-0361.

ICID's Important Events Rescheduled


Due to prevailing Covid-19 conditions worldwide, in consultation with the host National Committees and the Central office, the Management Board decided to reschedule ICID's upcoming events as follows.

 

72nd IEC Meeting and 5th African Regional Conference (AFRC): The 72nd IEC meeting and 5th African Regional Conference (AFRC) will be held during 22-29 September 2021 in Marrakesh, Morroco. Young Professional's Training Program (YP-TP) will be held along with the 5th African Regional Conference. Exact dates and further details will be announced as and when available.

73rd IEC Meeting and 24th ICID Congress: 73rd IEC meeting and 24th ICID Congress will be held from 30 May to 6 June 2022 in Adelaide, Australia, hosted by Irrigation Australia Ltd., & Irrigation Australia's Committee on Irrigation and Drainage (IACID). For more information, please contact Mr. Bryan Ward, Chief Executive Officer, Irrigation Australia Limited (IAL) (Incorporating IACID); Email:  bryan.ward@irrigation.org.au, info@irrigation.org.au,  http://www.irrigationaustralia.com.au/


74th IEC Meeting and 4th World Irrigation Forum (WIF4): 74th IEC Meeting and 4th World Irrigation Forum (WIF4) will be held during 16-22 April 2023 in Beijing China.

 75th IEC Meeting and 25th ICID Congress
 75th IEC Meeting and 25th ICID Congress will be held in November 2023,     Visakhapatnam (Vizag), Andhra Pradesh State, India
 
 10th International Micro Irrigation Conference (10MIC):10th International Micro     Irrigation Conference (10MIC)  will be held in  September 2022 in Agadir, Morocco, as a stand-alone event. Final Dates to be announced later.
How AI will solve agriculture's water efficiency problems
16 January 2021
The optimal use of water through irrigation has always been inextricably linked to the evolution of agriculture and successful farming.
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/01/ai-agriculture-water-irrigation-farming/
 
Israeli technologies could boost South Africa agriculture
15 January 2021
Global agriculture sector must produce significantly more food and fibre for the world’s rapidly growing population.
https://www.farmersweekly.co.za/agri-business/agribusinesses/israeli-technologies-could-boost-sa-agriculture/
 
Technology is transforming India’s agricultural sector
15 January 2021
India currently ranks fourth in the world in agricultural production and is the world’s largest producer of wheat. 
https://www.borgenmagazine.com/technology-is-transforming-indias-agricultural-sector/
 
European satellites could help catch the next climate change disaster                              
17 January 2021                                                                                                                                  By using artificial intelligence and supercomputers, the first digital-twin simulations of earth could be ready by 2028.    
 
Carbon capture is vital to meeting climate goals, scientists tell green critics                                16 January 2021                                                                                                                             Carbon capture and storage involves the extraction of emissions from power plants and factories, condensing them, and then pumping the resulting carbon dioxide into underground stores.  
                                                                                                                                              Climate change spurring frog extinction: conservationists                                                       
16 January 2021                                                                                                                            Three Central American frog species have gone extinct and many others may soon follow as their populations are ravaged by a fungus that is spreading faster because of climate change.
https://ticotimes.net/2021/01/16/climate-change-spurring-frog-extinctions-conservationists                                                                                                                                                   
Global population hit by extreme drought set to double                                                                 
18 January 2021                                                                                                                            The possible consequences came sharply into view when reservoirs supplying Cape Town, South Africa - a city of 3.7 million - ran dry in early 2018 after a multi-year drought.     
https://www.brecorder.com/news/40052628/global-population-hit-by-extreme-drought-set-to-double                                    
Turkey drought: Istanbul could run out of water in 45 days                                                           
13 January 2021                                                                                                                            Poor rainfall has led to the country’s most severe drought in a decade and left the megacity of 17 million people with critically low levels of water. 
 
Humanitarian crisis looms in Madagascar amid drought and pandemic                                       
12 January 2021                                                                                                                            Part of the current crisis is linked to Madagascar’s vulnerability to climate shocks, a problem it shares with the southern African region.   
https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/01/1081892                                                                                       
50-year-old Nile dam altered lives                                                                                            
18 January 2021                                                                                                                              The dam's construction changed the very landscape of Egypt. It spared the farmers from seasonal droughts and flooding.                                                                                                   

What Japan’s disaster-proofing strategies can teach the world                                                 
13 January 2021                                                                                                                            The 2011 Tohoku earthquake, which triggered a massive tsunami and a meltdown at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant, killed more than 15,000 people.   
                         
Thailand: Yala dam reduces overflow to lessen flood in Pattani                                               
12 January 2021                                                                                                                        Pattani province, southern Thailand, has been flooded for days with water from Bang Lang dam in Yala province, as the dam had to release a huge volume of water into the Pattani river.  
https://en.vietnamplus.vn/thailand-yala-dam-reduces-overflow-to-lessen-flood-in-pattani/194629.vnp                                                                                                                                    
Climate change may contribute more to greater child malnutrition than poverty and poor sanitation: study                                                                                                                          
17 January 2021                                                                                                                             UN says 144 million children under five were affected by stunting in 2019 as a result of chronic malnutrition, with a further 47 million suffering from wasting caused by low nutrient intake.    
https://www.timesnownews.com/international/article/climate-change-may-contribute-more-to-greater-child-malnutrition-than-poverty-and-poor-sanitation/707925                                                                                                                                                        
Future of food: exploring challenges to global food systems 
15 January 2021
Food wastage is common across all stages of the food chain. Nearly 13.8% of food is lost in supply chains from harvesting to transport to storage to processing. 
Some 2.64 million Malawians face acute food insecurity between january and march: report
12 January 2021
Two million of the total 2.64 million people facing high acute food insecurity are in the rural areas of Malawi, while 610,000 are in the country’s four largest cities of Lilongwe, Blantyre, Mzuzu and Zomba.
https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/africa/some-2-64-million-malawians-face-acute-food-insecurity-between-january-and-march-report-75030
                                                                                       
Govt aims to cut groundwater dependency for irrigation
18 January 2021
The government is targeting to increase use of surface water for irrigation to 30 per cent of the country's total irrigation area by 2030 in order to reduce dependence on gr

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