How AI Is Modernizing Chinese Agriculture
12 October 2019
In recent years frontier technologies such as AI, big data, IoT, and 3S technology (RS remote sensing technology, GIS geographic information systems, and GPS global positioning systems), have been aggressively deployed to accelerate the modernization of Chinese agriculture. These new technologies are being applied mainly in planting, animal husbandry, and agricultural services.
https://syncedreview.com/2019/10/12/how-ai-is-modernizing-chinese-agriculture/
 

Global Agriculture Robots Market
11 October 2019
The "Agriculture Robots - Market Analysis, Trends, and Forecasts" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. Agriculture Robots market worldwide is projected to grow by US$4.9 Billion, driven by a compounded growth of 22.7%.
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/global-agriculture-robots-market-2019-2025-300937086.html

 
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Climate change: Ban on air miles urged to cut frequent flights
13 October 2019
Air miles schemes must be banned because they encourage excessive flying, according to a report commissioned by the government’s climate change advisers.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/climate-change-ban-on-air-miles-urged-to-cut-frequent-flights-3cc6k5qgx
 

Global Climate Change Week at UOW
13 October 2019
Academics, professional staff and local communities around the world will come together in the upcoming week to save the planet in a global movement that began at UOW.
https://www.uow.edu.au/media/2019/global-climate-change-week-at-uow.php
 

Climate change means geoengineering under pressure to keep our CO2 budgets under control
07 October 2019
This global attempt to remove CO2 from the atmosphere has been 11 years in the making — since 2018, when the IPCC Global Warming of 1.5C special report warned that emissions reductions alone would not be enough to restrict global heating to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-10-07/scientists-warn-we-have-10-years-to-start-removing-co2/11563584

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UNICEF NSW Youth Drought Summit sends a clear message: action now
14 October 2019
Nearly 100 young people from regional and remote NSW unleashed their thoughts at UNICEF Australia's first Youth Summit for young people living with drought.
https://www.newcastleherald.com.au/story/6435707/theyre-young-they-care-and-they-want-drought-action/
 

Global Warming Was Already Fueling Droughts in Early 1900s
13 October 2019
Scientists say the surprising findings provide the clearest signal yet of how greenhouse gas emissions have led to changing soil conditions around the world. Global warming has been fueling droughts since the early 20th Century, when soils started drying out at the same time across parts of North and Central America, Eurasia, Australia and the Mediterranean, new research shows.

https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/global-warming-was-already-fueling-droughts-in-early-1900s/

 

Drought-Stricken Australian Region to Spend $680 Million on Dams
13 October 2019
Australia plans to invest about A$1 billion ($680 million) to build and upgrade dam facilities in rural parts of New South Wales, seeking to bolster access to water in a region that’s experiencing one of its worst droughts on record.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-10-13/drought-stricken-australian-region-to-spend-680-million-on-dams


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Japan launches major rescue efforts after typhoon unleashes deadly floods
13 October 2019
The storm triggered deadly landslides and caused rivers to burst their banks. By Sunday morning, the significantly weakened storm had moved back off land, but serious flooding was reported in central Japan's Nagano, where a burst levee sent water from the Chikuma river…
https://www.france24.com/en/20191013-japan-launches-major-rescue-efforts-after-typhoon-unleashes-deadly-floods
 

AI that predicts flash floods years in advance to protect UK's towns
13 October 2019
Artificial intelligence that can predict the risk of flash flooding years before it happens will be used by the Environment Agency to protect Britain's towns and cities. A Cambridge University research student has created a system that estimates the risk of locations being affected by torrential rain, flash-floods and rising sea levels caused by climate change.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2019/10/13/ai-predicts-flash-floods-years-advance-protect-uks-towns/
 

Stop flood-inducing ‘fill and build’ practice in Charleston
12 October 2019
That model might keep water out of individual homes in a neighborhood, but the runoff has to go somewhere. In some instances, it floods streets and leaves other homes surrounded by water. Sometimes it floods an older adjacent neighborhood, or it overwhelms the local drainage system and floods distant lower-lying areas. Eventually, the natural flow of an entire watershed is disrupted.
https://www.postandcourier.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-stop-flood-inducing-fill-and-build-practice-in-charleston/article_90374130-ec58-11e9-98f0-e38c9f878eea.html

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China to release white paper on food security
13 October 2019
The State Council Information Office will release a white paper titled Food Security in China and hold a press conference on Monday afternoon.
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-10/13/c_138468192.htm
 

Indigenous Knowledge Can Help Solve the Biodiversity Crisis
12 October 2019
A decline in biodiversity will negatively impact humans in a number of different ways, ranging from food security to water quality. Considering this, it is imperative for indigenous knowledge to play an integral role in the fight to protect our sacred global biome.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/indigenous-knowledge-can-help-solve-the-biodiversity-crisis/
 

FAO hails partnership potential with civil society
12 October 2019
Partnerships at multiple levels are critical to achieving a world without hunger, FAO Director-General Qu Dongyu said Saturday at a meeting with leading exponents of civil society and indigenous peoples representing small scale food producers and family farmers.

https://reliefweb.int/report/world/fao-hails-partnership-potential-civil-society

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India announces a Line of Credit of US$ 30 million to Sierra Leone for Irrigation development
13 October 2019
India and Sierra Leone signed 6 agreements today to expand the bilateral relations in various fields and also agreed to push for UNSC reforms so that one-third of mankind residing in Africa and India occupy their rightful place in decision making bodies of the UN.
http://orissadiary.com/india-announces-line-credit-us-30-million-sierra-leone-irrigation-development/
 

University of Florida offers Weed Management and Irrigation Water Quality and Treatment online courses
12 October 2019
An intermediate level course that teaches all aspects of weed management in nurseries and greenhouses, including weed identification, developing herbicide programs, and the latest non-chemical methods of weed control that work as well as Irrigation Water Quality & Treatment - An advanced level course that helps interpret water quality tests for irrigation of greenhouse and nursery crops, select appropriate water treatment technologies, and design a water treatment and monitoring system.
https://urbanagnews.com/blog/education/university-of-florida-offers-weed-management-and-irrigation-water-quality-and-treatment-online-courses/
 

Maximising value from irrigation
12 October 2019
Major technical advances in irrigation systems over the past two decades have given farmers and growers the ability to apply specific amounts of water to a paddock or block of land. However, different types of soil and pieces of land within a block or paddock require different amounts of water, and too much water can easily be applied, causing water wastage, nutrient loss and leaching.
https://www.google.com/alerts?s=AB2Xq4jokWCoJwdFq6n56TbrLwocvyVQsyKCox0&start=1570874885&end=1570961226&source=alertsmail&hl=en&gl=US&msgid=Njg4NDEyMzYxMjI1NDk5MjUx#2:0

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[[ WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT ]]







Hydrologic simulation models that inform policy decisions are difficult to interpret
12 October 2019
Hydrologic models that simulate and predict water flow are used to estimate how natural systems respond to different scenarios such as changes in climate, land use, and soil management.
https://phys.org/news/2019-10-hydrologic-simulation-policy-decisions-difficult.html
 

Ethiopia Gets First Wetlands Directory
12 October 2019
The Ethiopian Wildlife and Natural History Society (EWNHS) in Collaboration with Wetland International (WI) have launched "A First Directory of Ethiopian Wetlands" at a workshop held at the Azzeman Hotel in Addis Ababa on October 10, 2019.
https://allafrica.com/stories/201910120030.html
 

WRC calls for holistic coordination for management of water resources
11 October 2019
The Upper East Regional Director of the Water Resources Commission, has called for a holistic coordination between providers of hydrological services and stakeholders in the management of Water Resources to help improve underground water sources.
https://ghananewsagency.org/science/wrc-calls-for-holistic-coordination-for-management-of-water-resources-157802

 

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Association Fran'aise pour l'Etude des Irrigations et du Drainage (AFEID), is organizing a two-day Conference on “Water Savings in Irrigation” from 13-14 November 2019 at Montpellier, France.
The objectives of the Conference are : (a) Exchange around the levers of water-saving and efficiency improvements in irrigation; (b) Share the quantitative feedback on water savings achieved by a change of equipment or the adoption of piloting tools in the different EU countries; (c) Share the methodologies used in the various European countries for the ex-ante evaluation of potential water savings; present the French methodology established at the request of the Ministry of Agriculture; and (d) present technical innovations to save water in irrigation.
For further information on program, registration, submission of abstract etc., please visit the conference website: https://watersaving.sciencesconf.org

The International Conference on Food, Nutrition Security and Sustainable Agriculture (FNSSA),
1-3 December 2019, Cairo, Egypt; Ms. Sara Youssef Conference Coordinator fnssa@food-conference.org,
Website: https://www.food-conference.org/events/food-nutrition-security-and-sustainable-agriculture-1st#objectiveoftheconferencehttps://www.food-conference.org/events/food-nutrition-security-and-sustainable-agriculture-1st#objectiveoftheconference
 

Water Pollution 2020: 15th International Conference on Monitoring, Modelling and Management of Water Pollution, 13-15 May 2020, Valencia, Spain. For more details, please visit: https://www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2020-conferences/water-pollution-2020; Email: wit@wessex.ac.uk

24th ICID International Congress & 71st IEC Meeting, 22-28 September 2020, Sydney, Australia
Website: http://www.icid2020.com.au

MinWat 2020: 3rd International Multidisciplinary Conference on Mineral Waters: Genesis, Exploitation, Protection and Valorisation, 31 March-3 April 2020, Caserta, Italy. For more details, please visit: https://iah.org/events/minwat-2020; Email: segratario@iahitaly.it
 

24th ICID International Congress & 71st IEC Meeting, 22-28 September 2020, Sydney, Australia. For more info contact: Mr. Bryan Ward, Chief Executive Officer, Irrigation’s Australia Limited (IAL) (Incorporating IACID); Email: bryan.ward@irrigation.org.au, info@irrigation.org.au; Website: http://www.icid2020.com.au
 

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Vulnerability to Food Insecurity in Mountain Regions: Land Degradation and Other Stressors
UNCCD Publications (27 September 2019)
Protecting mountain ecosystems, promoting the sustainable use of natural resources and ensuring food security are all global priorities. To this end, Sustainable Development Goal 15 aims to promote actions that ensure the sound and sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems by promoting actions to control land degradation and maintain healthy vegetation cover.
Link: https://www.unccd.int/publications/vulnerability-food-insecurity-mountain-regions-land-degradation-and-other-stressors