2nd WASAG International Forum – Technical session: Dryland Agriculture
- Moderator: Vinay Nangia, ICARDA
- Opening remarks: Felix Reinders, WASAG Chair
- Water for food, water for life: The drylands challenge – Vinay Nangia
- Accurate Estimation of crop water requirements using new technologies (COSMOS, Scintillometers, and Eddy Covariance) – Ragab Ragab
- Estimation of CWR using the the FAO CropWat approach: the case of Southern Italy Hydrographic District Authority – Marco Arcieri, ICID
- Technological solutions from the Water-Energy-Ecosystems nexus perspectives to improve the well-being of communities in African drylands – Thameur Chaibi, National Research Institute for Rural Engineering, Water, and Forestry (INRGREF)
- Feasibility of low-cost renewable-powered integrated electrodialysis desalination and low-energy drip irrigation systems designed for arid areas with brackish groundwater – Susan Amrose, MIT
- Farmers’ decision-making with an app for climate risk management in drylands – Mitsuru Tsubo, Tottori University
- Ways of improving water productivity of pistachio trees orchards in arid area – Mohamed Ghrab, Institution of Agronomic Research and Higher Education, Olive Institute, Tunisia
- Conséquences des inondations d’octobre et novembre 2022 dans la vallée du Sourou au Burkina Faso – Karambiri Bienvenue L. Chantal N., Institut des Sciences des Sociétés (INSS/CNRST)
- Closing remarks
26/05/2023