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From flask to field: How tiny microbes are revolutionizing big agriculture
26 January 2017
By unlocking phosphorus from soil, microbes help plants like these sugar beets take it up and boost plant growth.
http://theconversation.com/from-flask-to-field-how-tiny-microbes-are-revolutionizing-big-agriculture-67041

Farmers encouraged to practise climate-smart agriculture
KINGSTON, Jamaica, 24 January 2017
Minister without Portfolio in the Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Ministry, JC Hutchinson, is encouraging farmers to practise climate-smart agriculture (CSA), to help grow the sector in a sustainable way. CSA refers to agriculture that sustainably increases productivity, enhances resilience or adaptation, reduces greenhouse gases where possible, and enhances achievement of national food security and development goals.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Farmers-encouraged-to-practise-climate-smart-agriculture

New NAFTA could be good for agriculture
Mexico News Daily, January 27, 2017
Renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) could be an opportunity to extricate Mexican agriculture from rules that have harmed farming in Mexico.

http://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/new-nafta-could-be-good-for-agriculture/

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Europe faces droughts, floods and storms as climate change accelerates
The Guardian, 25 January 2017
Europe’s Atlantic-facing countries will suffer heavier rainfalls, greater flood risk, more severe storm damage and an increase in “multiple climatic hazards”, according to the most comprehensive study of Europe’s vulnerability to climate change yet.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/25/europe-faces-droughts-floods-storms-climate-change-accelerates

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17 million face hunger in Horn of Africa due to drought
Times of Israel, 30 January 2017
Severe drought since the failure of October-December rains is ravaging Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda, the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) said in a statement
http://www.timesofisrael.com/17-million-face-hunger-in-horn-of-africa-due-to-drought/

Spain's drought reveals lost worlds
Aljazeera, 28 January 2017
During the dictatorship of Spain's Francisco Franco more than half a century ago, dams and reservoirs were built across the country in order to improve water supplies. Towns and villages were relocated while the original structures were flooded. Along with the once busy streets, even older Roman architecture was lost. Last summer marked the driest period that Spain's northwestern Galicia region has seen since 1981. This ongoing drought has led to reservoir levels falling to just 25 percent of normal capacity. But the lower water levels have now revealed those lost towns that haven't been seen in decades.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/inpictures/2017/01/spain-drought-reveals-lost-worlds-170128072138481.html

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ADB to Support Improved Food Security, Dairy Industry in Tajikistan
Dushanbe, TAJIKISTAN, 25 January 2017
Preparatory work has begun for a proposed project to improve food security in Tajikistan by boosting dairy production while making the industry more resilient to climate change. A $500,000 technical assistance grant by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will prepare a feasibility study of the proposed investment project.
http://reliefweb.int/report/tajikistan/adb-support-improved-food-security-dairy-industry-tajikistan

Food Security Looks Very Different Depending on Where You Live
The Wire, 24 January 2017
There is no one-size-fits-all answer to global food insecurity, except that the West needs waste less and consume more environmentally friendly food.
https://thewire.in/102143/food-security-looks-very-different-depending-on-where-live/

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Japanese govt pledges to support Irrigation in Uganda
TVC News, 23 January 2017
The Japanese Ambassador to Uganda, Kazuaki Kameda, has pledged his government’s support towards promoting irrigation in the country. This move is to enable Ugandans produce adequate food. Kameda said the Japanese government will encourage people to adopt irrigation as way of improving agriculture.
http://africa.tvcnews.tv/2017/01/23/japanese-govt-pledges-support-irrigation-uganda/

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.
Website: http://www.icid2017.org/                                                                                           

National Agriculture Policy, Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Water Development, September 2016.
Agriculture remains the mainstay of Malawi’s economy, contributing significantly to employment, economic growth, export earnings, poverty reduction, food security, and nutrition. It also plays a critical role in ensuring sustainable use of natural resources. All of these pose a threat to food security and nutrition in the face of a growing population, increased land pressure, and climate change. In trying to address these challenges in the past, Malawi has over-concentrated on maize self-sufficiency for food and tobacco as a cash crop, at the expense of other agricultural commodities, including livestock and fisheries. Moreover, the sector remains predominantly subsistence-oriented. In response, the NAP seeks to sustainably transform the sector from subsistence to a market orientation in order to increase agricultural production, marketed surpluses of commodities, and real incomes.
http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/NAP_Final_Signed.pdf

This new online service introduced by ICID is developed to help various stakeholders in locating required business information through a few clicks. The online directory enlists all the services and products being provided by consultants, manufacturing companies, dealers, and other professional institutions dealing in irrigation, drainage and flood management. This online service is totally FREE and can be availed of by any service provider by submitting the required information on ICID website <http://www.icid.org/ypaddform2.php>. To view this new service, please visit http://www.icid.org/ypsearch.php

IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE - The Journal of the ICID

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