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ICID FORTHCOMING EVENTS
10th International Micro Irrigation Conference, 25 - 27 January 2023 in Dakhla, Morocco. Theme: Micro Irrigation in the Era of Technology, Innovation, and Digital Transformation. Website:http://10imic.ma/
25th International Congress on Irrigation and Drainage & 74th IEC Meeting with Theme:- Tackling Water Scarcity in Agriculture, will be held during 1 - 8 November 2023, Visakhapatnam (Vizag), Andhra Pradesh, India. https://icid25congress.in/index.html
26th International Congress on Irrigation and Drainage, 01 - 06 October, 2026 - Marseille, France.
IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
COSTEA2 RESTITUTION SEMINAR - COSTEA (Scientific and Technical Committee for Agricultural Water), was created in 2013 by AFD (Agence Française pour le Développement), the project funder, and AFEID (Association Française pour l'Eau, l'Irrigation et le Drainage), the project owner, to support the growing demand from States of the Global South in their reinvestment in irrigation. https://www.comite-costea.fr/
International Conference on Water Management & Climate Change, organized by Water Resources Department, Government of Karnataka; Jan 24 - 25, 2023. https://walmievents2023.in/
INVITATION TO JOIN ICID MEMBERSHIP
International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID), established in 1950 is the leading scientific, technical and professional international organization, which focuses on irrigation, drainage, and flood management. Click the link for more information:
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US approves world’s first vaccine for declining honey bees
6 January 2023
Pollinators such as bees, birds and bats are responsible for about a third of the world's crop production, according to the United Nation's Food and Agricultural Organization.
To boldly grow: how space agtech shapes farming on Earth
3 January 2023
Worldwide, 12 million hectares of land valuable to agriculture are lost every year, and global agriculture production will need to increase by 70% to meet the demand of an expanding population
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Farming destroyed Brazil’s rain forests. It could also save them
3 January 2023
Between June 2021 and June 2022, the worst drought in a century cut Brazil’s national agribusiness earnings by 5.5% compared with the previous year.
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Thirteen critical questions for international climate action in 2023
6 January 2023
Meetings of the World Bank, IMF, International Maritime Organization and Cop28 will shape climate action, plus elections and China’s reopening.
Methane comes front and center in climate change policy
6 January 2023
The Global Methane Pledge represents an initial international effort to address methane. Its now-150 members support a global framework with unusually easy terms.
Climate change could cause 'disaster' in the world's oceans, say scientists
4 January 2023
Climate-driven heating of seawater is causing a slowdown of deep circulation patterns in the Atlantic and Southern oceans, according to Earth system scientists at the University of California.
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‘The brink of famine’: Drought puts an entire generation of Somalis at risk
7 January 2023
Five consecutive rainy seasons have failed to arrive in Somalia, prolonging its worst drought in more than 40 years.
Compound extreme heat and drought will hit 90% of world population
6 Januray 2023
Warming is projected to intensify these hazards ten-fold globally under the highest emission pathway, says the report, published in Nature Sustainability.
Europe: Warm start to 2023 breaks records and skiers’ hearts, says WMO
5 January 2023
“Strong declines in glaciers, permafrost, snow cover extent, and snow seasonal duration at high latitudes/altitudes are observed and will continue in a warming world,” the IPCC said.
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Wild world weather: Seven cyclones predicted for the Pacific
6 January 2023
In the Pacific, heavy rain warnings have been issued for the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Fiji, and Tonga.
Pakistan floods: 9 million more risk being pushed into poverty, warns UNDP
5 January 2023
The crops had been lost from the last harvest and from the missed planting season. “Agricultural prices - food prices - are therefore increasing and could push, double the amount of people into food insecurity, increasing that number from seven to 14.6 million.
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How digital solutions can help solve global food problems
6 January 2023
Current innovations are not fulfilling their potential in the food value chain. Digital platforms can build sustainable, resilient and productive food systems.
Food prices decline in December following ‘two very volatile years’: FAO
6 January 2023
World food prices declined for the ninth consecutive month in December, though many commodities are still at record highs, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) reported on Friday.
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Efforts to save what’s left of aquifer set up a fight in Kansas
8 January 2023
The Ogallala aquifer covers nearly 175,000 square miles (453,000 square kilometers) in the western and Great Plains states of Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming, and South Dakota.
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Towing icebergs to arid regions to reduce water scarcity
7 January 2023
A long-held idea is that icebergs could be towed to arid coastal regions and harvested to help alleviate water stress.
Can the West save the Colorado River before it’s too late? Here are 8 possible solutions
6 January 2023
Local, state and federal officials often mention using more efficient irrigation methods on cropland and they discuss accounting for water lost to evaporation or as it’s transported across thousands of miles of desert terrain.
Rewind 2022: How water crisis gripped SA
5 January 2023
As the country endured crippling blackouts, many South Africans also had to bear the brunt of water shortages caused by load-shedding and high water demand, which depleted some reservoirs in Gauteng, the economic hub of the country.
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UN 2023 Water Conference - Yet, today, 40 per cent of the world’s people are affected by water scarcity; 80 per cent of wastewater is discharged untreated into the environment, and more than 90 per cent of disasters are water-related. https://sdgs.un.org/conferences/water2023
Preparatory meeting for the United Nations Conference
Preparatory meeting for the United Nations Conference on the Midterm Comprehensive Review of the Implementation of the Objectives of the International Decade for Action "Water for Sustainable Development", 2018–2028." https://media.un.org/en/asset/k1z/k1zx4ipa4x
40th International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR), Vienna-Austria, 21 - 25th August 2023, Theme - Rivers Connecting Mountains & Coasts
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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.
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