Monthly Archives: August 2010
Risingkashmir.com: Food as a weapon
Pakistan and India are already water-stressed economies. The tiff over sharing of Indus water and construction of Baglihar dam has already given hiccups to...
Seminal.firedoglake.com: Funding a Blue Revolution
In Accra, Ghana the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), a non-profit organization working in Asia and Africa to improve water and land management for...
Indiawaterportal.org: Assessing and improving water productivity in conservation agriculture systems in...
The paper by Challenge Programme on Water and Food (CPWF) attempts to assess and improve water productivity in conservation agriculture systems in the...
Bizcommunity.com: AfricaRice to launch Sawah system in Benin, Togo
The project partners include the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), the national programs of the IVC member countries, Hitotsubashi, Tsukuba and Kinki Universities in...
Huffingtonpost.com: Global Lessons from the Pakistan Flood Catastrophe
There's not very much space to absorb all the rainfall," says Asad Sarwar Qureshi, a water resources expert at the International Water Management...
Blogs.worldwatch.org: Innovation of the Week: Funding a Blue Revolution
In Accra, Ghana the International Water Management Institute (IWMI), a non-profit organization working in Asia and Africa to improve water and land management...
Video: 6 critical solutions to water scarcity and food security
In the latest video from the series titled "Colin's STRAIGHTtalk" Dr. Colin Chartres talks about six critical solutions to water scarcity and food security.
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Nqr.farmonline.com.au:
Keynote speaker Dr Colin Chartres, director-general of the International Water Management Institute, said doubling the volume of water was required to double food production....
Sindhtoday.net: Years of river mismanagement behind massive Pak flooding
Asad Sarwar Qureshi, a water resources expert at the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) branch in Lahore cited that due to consistent exploitation river...
Pakistan Flooding Because of Farms?
"There's not very much space to absorb all the rainfall," says Asad Sarwar Qureshi, a water resources expert at the International Water Management...