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13 January 2025
ICID Events
6th African Regional Conference, Abuja, Nigeria, 14-18 April 2025
Theme: “Tackling Irrigation Development and Water Management Crisis in Africa.”
11th International Micro Irrigation Conference, 27th - 29th April 2025, Baghdad, Iraq
76th IEC Meeting & 4th World Irrigation Forum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 7-13 September 2025
77th IEC Meeting & 26th ICID Congress, Marseille, France, 12-18 October 2026
Theme: “Agriculture and climate change: stakes and levers for irrigation and drainage.”
78th IEC Meeting & 5th World Irrigation Forum (WIF5), at Guoce International Conference & Exhibition Center, Beijing, China, 2027
Other Events
International Conference on Trailblazing Trends in Sustainable Climate Resilient Precision Agriculture Through Artificial Intelligence and Remote Sensing, January 23 - 24, 2025, Gujarat, India. For more information please visit the link https://www.ictpairs.in/index
8th Africa Agri Expo 2025- Kenya, 19 - 20 February 2025 - AAE 2025 is the premier platform connecting Africa’s flourishing agribusiness sector to the world. The expo offers an excellent opportunity for agribusinesses and professionals to expand into Africa’s rapidly growing sector, which is projected to reach US$1 trillion by 2030. For more information please click the link: https://africa-agriexpo.com/about.html
Water, as the key natural resource, is fundamental to all economic, social and environmental development processes. Thus, efficient water resources management is essential for achieving poverty reduction through sustainable water management in irrigated agriculture. Proper irrigation systems can secure uninterrupted agriculture. Irrigation schemes play a key role in assuring timely and adequate agricultural water supply apart from other benefits. ICID has taken an initiative to document development of irrigation in the World through irrigation schemes. The register will fulfil a much-awaited global repository of information in the systematic irrigation and agricultural water management. the register is being implementing as a collaborative effort of National Committees of ICID and other interested entities dealing with irrigation and drainage. Please Visit
Invitation to Join ICID Membership
The Commission thrives on its worldwide network of experts from multifarious disciplines from 70 countries, who came together in the interest of global water management. All are members contribute to this higher cause by offering their voluntary services.
Currently, there are two different kinds of membership categories; National Committees and Direct Members. National Committees (NC) represent their countries mostly through their government departments responsible for irrigation, drainage or agricultural water management.
Companies, institutions, and individuals can also participate in ICID activities through their respective NCs or as Direct Members (DM). Professionals, individuals and officers of a government or of an institution or institutions - government and non-government; and companies, effectively representing interests within the scope of the objects of the Commission can participate in ICID activities through Direct Membership, to further the objects of the Commission in their countries or sovereign areas.
In the course of our activities and events conducted throughout the world, we associate with many different kinds of NGOs, national governments, researchers, corporate sectors, civil society organizations, and individuals. They are not necessarily members of ICID network but our associates and an important part of ICID fraternity. For more details, please visit: https://icid-ciid.org/view_page/2
Global Crop-Specific Fertilization Dataset from 1961–2019
9 January 2025
This extensive dataset is poised to be a valuable resource for assessing fertilization trends, identifying the socioeconomic, agricultural, and environmental drivers of fertilizer application rates.
Delivering regenerative agriculture through digitalization and AI
6 January 2025
Regenerative agriculture represents a holistic approach to farming that goes beyond simply maintaining the status quo. It aims to actively improve soil health, increase biodiversity, enhance ecosystem services and capture carbon in the soil.
Climate change plays key contributing role in LA fires
12 January 2025
Climate change particularly whiplash between two wet winters followed by a bone dry, unusually hot spring, summer and fall set the stage for Los Angeles' deadly and devastating fires, scientists say.
What is the Paris climate agreement and why does 1.5C matter?
11 January 2025
In 2015, world leaders pledged to try and prevent global temperatures rising by more than 1.5C above those of the late 19th Century - known as "pre-industrial" levels.
Barcelona is using its tourist tax to help tackle the effects of climate change
11 January 2025
Barcelona is trying to turn a negative into a positive by spending some of the money raised from the city's tax on visitors to tackle issues caused by climate change.
Biodiversity loss and climate change: Interdependent global challenges
9 January 2025
Corals are particularly vulnerable to rising temperatures and ocean acidification can make it harder for shellfish and corals in the upper ocean to form shells and hard skeletons.
WMO confirms 2024 as warmest year on record at about 1.55°C above pre-industrial level
10 January 2025
The WMO provides a temperature assessment based on multiple sources of data to support international climate monitoring and to provide authoritative information for the UN Climate Change negotiating process.
Riyadh’s COP16: A milestone in the fight against drought, experts say
8 January 2025
Alarming figures indicate that 40% of the earth’s land is already degraded, impacting half of the human population and half of the global GDP, underscoring the severity of the challenge faced by communities today.
World Drought Atlas launch highlights global threat
7 January 2025
One might imagine drought as something that happens in far-off places with hotter climates and poor water infrastructure, often made deadly by the catastrophic consequences of crop failure on the capacity of countries and regions to feed their populations.
Mayotte hit by new storm just weeks after devastating cyclone
12 January 2025
A fresh tropical storm has struck Mayotte in the Indian Ocean just weeks after a deadly cyclone which killed at least 39 people and left more than 200 still missing.
Increasing temporal stability of global tropical cyclone precipitation
10 January 2025
Heavy rains from tropical cyclones (TCs) significantly impact coastal areas, causing severe urban flooding and transportation disruptions.
Global Water Monitor: Europe will continue facing elevated flood risk in 2025
7 January 2025
Levels of droughts and flooding reached new extremes in 2024 and records may well be broken again over the coming year, a global coalition of academics specialising in climate has warned.
Food security act prevented stunting of 1.8 millions of kids: Study
11 January 2025
The authors suggest that this could be because the decrease in out of pocket expenditure on staple foods frees up household food budgets for a shift of expenditure to more nutrient dense food.
Shanxi province food security evaluation research
6 January 2025
Shanxi Province, as China’s grain production and marketing balance area, has rich agricultural resources and profound farming civilization, its food security situation is not only related to its own economic development, but also has a strategic position that can not be ignored in the national food security system.
Weir dams bring hope to rural communities struggling with water scarcity
10 January 2025
Rural communities in Zimbabwe have long grappled with the challenge of accessing reliable water sources. An initiative led by FAO is working to alleviate this crisis through the construction of strategic weir dams.
Climate crisis ‘wreaking havoc’ on Earth’s water cycle, report finds
6 January 2025
The team used data from thousands of ground stations and satellites orbiting the Earth to assess critical water variables such as rainfall, soil moisture, river flows, and flooding.
ICID Publication - Historical Water Sustainability, 2023
The latest data from WRI’s Aqueduct Water Risk Atlas (August 2023) show that 25 countries housing one-quarter of the global population face extremely high water stress each year, regularly using up almost their entire available water supply. And at least 50% of the world’s population around 4 billion people live under highly water-stressed conditions for at least one month of the year. https://icid-ciid.org/icid_data_web/HWS-ePublication.pdf
ICID Publication - Compendium World Heritage Irrigation Structures (2014-2022)
Since the dawn of human civilization water has been an enabler of societal development so much so that we started believing “Water is Life,” a common phrase in most languages. And, life is multi-dimensional involving not only a physical aspect but also economic, social, cultural, political, religious, and spiritual concepts.
https://icid-ciid.org/icid_data_web/WHISCompendium-ePublication.pdf
ICID Publication - Water-Saving in Agriculture - A Roadmap to ICID Vision 2030
This publication is in a way to celebrate the 7-decade existence and relevance of ICID which started with a handful of members and has grown to represent more than 90% of the world irrigated area.
https://www.icid-ciid.org/icid_data_web/Watsave_eBook2022_comp.pdf
Global Climate Litigation Report: 2023 Status Review
Climate litigation represents a frontier solution to change the dynamics of the fight against climate change. This Global Climate Litigation Report: 2023 Status Review shows that people are increasingly turning to the courts to combat the climate crisis. As of December 2022, there have been 2,180 climate-related cases filed in 65 jurisdictions, including international and regional courts, tribunals, quasi-judicial bodies, or other adjudicatory bodies, such as Special Procedures at the United Nations and arbitration tribunals. https://www.unep.org/resources/report/global-climate-litigation-report-2023-status-review
Climate Crossroads: Fiscal Policies in a Warming World - The report takes stock of mitigation policies across countries and presents the trilemma facing policymakers of balancing between achieving climate goals, debt sustainability, and political feasibility. https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/FM/Issues/2023/10/10/fiscal-monitor-october-2023
Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report - The much-anticipated Climate Change 2023: Synthesis Report is based on years of work by hundreds of scientists during the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) sixth assessment cycle which began in 2015. https://www.unep.org/resources/report/climate-change-2023-synthesis-report
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IRRIGATION AND DRAINAGE - THE JOURNAL OF ICID
Articles available via complimentary online access @ https://wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/ird
ICID e-Bulletin is a weekly compilation of news items on ICID-related issues in the domain of Agriculture, Climate Change, Droughts, Floods, Food Security, Irrigation, and Water Resources Management that might be of interest to the ICID fraternity. The information contained in the BULLETIN does not purport to be exhaustive and is taken ''as it is'' from external sources and is freely available on the internet. No evaluation on the part of the ICID Central Office is being made in terms of the authenticity of the information that it may contain. ICID Central Office makes no guarantee, either express or implied, as to the accuracy of the information published. Your valuable feedback on the usefulness of the bulletin is solicited at <icid@icid.org.>.
[ Compiled and Edited by: Ms. Kalpana Adhikari, and Mr. Anurag Mamgain ]
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Tel : +91-11-26116837, +91-11-26115679; Fax : +91-11-26115962
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