The Food and Agricultural Organization’s Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific is pleased to announce a Regional Online Conference Issues and Challenges in Sustainable Water Resource Use in Asia commencing 18 April 2011.
The conference is hosted by FAO in close partnership with a range of regional and international organizations including the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), UNESCAP, AusAID, Global Water Partnership (GWP), the Challenge Program on Water and Food (CPWF), IUCN and the International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage (ICID).
Conference Objective
The conference is an integral part of the ‘Analysis of Sustainable Water Resource Use in Asia’ project which focuses specifically on issues related to policies and practices of water allocation, particularly to agriculture. The objective of the conference is to identify the issues and challenges related to water allocation, and to explore the agricultural responses at all scales.
The aim is to get people discussing, debating and mobilized about the issues that are key to fostering better water allocation mechanisms in the region. The online conference provides the platform needed to bring together regional and international experts, government staff, researchers, academics, NGOs, system managers and all other stakeholders to share opinions, discuss new ideas and debate controversial issues.
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