ACLIMAS 2nd Annual meeting - 1st Inter-Regional Conference on Land and Water Challenges, September 2013

The second Annual Meeting of ACLIMAS will be held in Bari (Italy) in September 2013 in the concomitance with the CIGR International Conference on “Water, Environment and Agriculture: challenges for sustainable development”. In that occasion the results of demonstration activities in different target areas of the project will be presented. More about the Conference is available at http://www.landandwater2013.iamb.it

OBJECTIVE:

to present and discuss the latest achievements in the field of sustainable use of natural resources at different scales and to promote a better development of agriculture in the future.

Themes:

1. Water use performance and water productivity
2. Conservation agriculture and water saving
3. Sustainability of groundwater exploitation for agriculture
4. Decision support systems and modelling tools
5. Innovative data-acquisition and information and communication technologies
6. Irrigation technologies and management practices for environmental upgrading
7. Use of treated and low quality water in agriculture
8. Climate change: adaptation and mitigation
9. Drought/Flood risk management
10. Socio-economic aspects of land and water management
11. Policies, governance and institutional development
12. Water-food-energy nexus, eco-efficiency and ecological footprint