Director General Jeremy Bird will lead a team of IWMI experts taking part in the 7th World Water Forum in Daegu & Gyeongbuk in South Korea. The triennial forum is the largest water-related event in the world. This year, the theme is “Water for our future”
The CGIAR Research Program on Water Land and Ecosystems (WLE), led by IWMI, will launch a sourcebook for Water Smart Agriculture in East Africa at the event. IWMI/WLE researchers will also contribute to sessions on such diverse topics as the water-food-energy nexus, resource recovery and re-use (RRR) and water finance. IWMI and WLE will also have a booth in the exhibition area for publications and other materials.
On the opening day (Monday 13 April) Jeremy Bird will be a member of the high-level panel discussing the Future of World’s Waters beyond 2030.
Sessions and events
IWMI events calendar at the 7th World Water Forum
Delegation
IWMI staff attending the 7th World Water Forum
Water-Smart Agriculture in East Africa
The Sourcebook on Water-Smart Agriculture in East Africa will be officially launched at the 7th World Water Forum in Gyeongu, Korea on April 14, 2015, from 1:30pm at the B2F Dynasty Room of the Hotel Hyundai.
The Sourcebook on Water-Smart Agriculture in East Africa is a collection of case studies from soil conservation to building resilience, including farmers’ own innovative practices, that further develop this particular approach in East Africa aimed at a specific group of users- development managers, educators, local administrators and policy makers. These are the people who can utilize such practical research outputs, thereby enabling impact at scale at both local and national levels.
Note: This initiative was a collaboration between the Global Water Initiative East Africa (GWI-EA), CARE, the CGIAR Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) and the International Water Management Institute (IWMI).
