4 August 2025
ICID Events
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
7th Eurasian Conference on “Risk-oriented Design and Operation of Infrastructure Systems: Sustainability Paradigm” (RİSK-2025) under the umbrella of ICID. The conference is scheduled to be held at Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University, on 21-23 October 2025. https://www.eurasianrisk2025.com/
7th Conference of the Pan African Society for Agricultural Engineering ANAFIDE-PASAE (Afro-AgEng), Oct 22, 2025 - Oct 24, 2025; Marriott Hotel, FES, Morocco
Theme - Water Management for a Sustainable and Resilient Agriculture in Africa
Email : anafide.ma@gmail.com; Website : https://www.7pasae.ma/en
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
Empowering A Continent: How Youth And Cooperatives Are Revolutionizing Agriculture In East Africa
31 July 2025
Across Kenya and Uganda, a transformative movement is reshaping the agricultural landscape, driven by the dynamic partnership between rural youth and established cooperative societies.
About 2.3 Billion People – 28 Percent of the Global Population Faced Moderate to Severe Food Insecurity in 2024
29 July 2025
For the second year in a row, global hunger has decreased. Around 673 million people – 8.2 percent of the global population – faced hunger in 2024, down from 8.5 percent in 2023 and 8.7 percent in 2022.
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Global warming reaches Earth’s edge: Heard Island glaciers retreat by 23%
4 August 2025
Stephenson Glacier on the eastern slope of the island has seen the most dramatic changes, with a retreat of approximately 5.8 kilometres, and the formation of a new lagoon where the glacier once met the sea.
We need a revolution in environmental communications
1 August 2025
A recent study in the US, UK, and Australia showed that referring to the terms “climate change” or “global warming” did not affect whether people accepted what the science tells us that the world’s climate is changing.
2025 Global Conference on Climate and Health
29 July 2025
The Global Conference was organized with the support from the Kingdom of Spain, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Gates Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, and Welcome.
The world is getting hotter – this is what it is doing to our brains
1 August 2025
Extreme heat is the deadliest climate risk of our time. It claims 489,000 deaths annually – more than floods, hurricanes, earthquakes and wildfires combined.
Extreme heat: What to know about the deadliest climate risk of our time
30 July 2025
The rate of warming is accelerating at an unprecedented pace, creating significant risks for vulnerable populations.
Prolonged wind droughts in a warming climate threaten global wind power security
28 July 2025
Our analysis suggests that ~20% of existing wind turbines are in regions at high future risk of record-breaking wind drought extremes, a factor not yet considered in current assessments.
Global South shows higher urban flood exposures than the Global North under current and future scenarios
28 July 2025
Urbanization has intensified in recent decades, raising concerns about increasing flood exposure in cities. Here, we assess urban flood exposure in terms of built-up area, population, and economic activity located within zones affected by 1-in-100-year river flood events.
SOFI 2025: FAO calls for urgent, coordinated and inclusive action to end global hunger
28 July 2025
The 2025 SOFI report reveals a modest improvement in global hunger levels, with the share of people facing hunger declining from 8.5 percent in 2023 to 8.2 percent in 2024.
The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2025
28 July 2025
This report is the annual global monitoring report for Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 targets 2.1 and 2.2 – to end hunger, food insecurity and malnutrition in all its forms.
Malaysia to host 4th World Irrigation Forum on climate, irrigation and sustainability
2 August 2025
The forum will bring together global leaders, technical experts and policymakers from 24 countries to address pressing issues in climate change impacts and water resource management in agriculture.
Global soil organic and inorganic carbon vulnerability in response to irrigation
28 July 2025
However, global patterns of soil organic carbon (SOC) and soil inorganic carbon (SIC) responses to irrigation remain insufficiently characterized. Here, we synthesized 223,593 observations to derive 2217 representative soil profile measurements and estimated the differential effects of irrigation on SOC and SIC.
Rainwater Harvesting: A Sustainable Approach to Water Management
1 August2025
Human developmental needs have placed an enormous strain on the quality and quantity of both underground and surface water. Changing weather and hydrologic cycles are impacting water security, access and quality.
Satellites reveal a hidden global water crisis
27 July 2025
The researchers identified the type of water loss on land, and for the first time, found that 68% came from groundwater alone contributing more to sea level rise than the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets combined.
Three types of drought – and why there’s no such thing as a global water crisis
21 July 2025
The country receives relatively consistent rainfall throughout the year. Even when droughts occur, the underlying issue is how water is managed, distributed and maintained.
The United Nations World Water Development Report 2025, Mountains and glaciers: water towers - The United Nations World Water Development Report 2025 – Mountains and glaciers: Water towers calls attention to the essential services and benefits mountain waters and alpine glaciers provide to societies, economies and the environment. With a focus on the technical and policy responses required to improve water management in mountains, the report covers critical issues such as water supply and sanitation, climate change mitigation and adaptation, food and energy security, industry, disaster risk reduction and ecosystem protection. https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000393070
Water Insecurity in Central Asia: The 2021 Central Asia drought, the loss of the Aral Sea, the evaporation of glaciers in the Tian Shan mountains, and the alarming shrinking of the Caspian Sea are reminders of how natural and man-made disasters have destructive consequences on Central Asia’s strained water resources. https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/in-depth-research-reports/report/central-asia-needs-regional-and-international-cooperation-to-bolster-water-security/
The Role of Digital and Climate-Smart Agriculture in Climate Change Mitigation: A Systematic Mapping Protocol for South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
Climate-smart agriculture is a key global policy priority due to its potential to support climate change adaptation, mitigation, and food security through innovative practices and technologies. Recent advancements in digital agriculture technologies, such as precision agriculture and data analytics, are enabling its implementation. https://cgspace.cgiar.org/items/9c71917c-35db-4501-aaeb-6b0b58567b54
Emissions Gap Report 2024: The report looks at how much nations must promise to cut off greenhouse gases, and deliver, in the next round of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), due for submission in early 2025 ahead of COP30. Cuts of 42 per cent are needed by 2030 and 57 per cent by 2035 to get on track for 1.5°C. https://www.unep.org/resources/emissions-gap-report-2024
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
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
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