Sentences with phrase «international irrigation management»
«The environmental community in the 1980s went crazy pressuring the donor countries and the big foundations not to support ideas like inorganic fertilizers for Africa,» says David Seckler, the director of the International Irrigation Management Institute.
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Socio (s): CBD, IAEA, UNCCD, UNCTAD, UNDESA, UNECLAC, UNHCR, UNU, United Nations Secretary General Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation, Gender and Water Alliance, Global Water Partnership, International Association of Hydrogeologists, International Association of Hydrological Sciences, International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage, International Hydropower Association, International Water Association, International Water Management Institute, Public Services International, RAMSAR — Convention on Wetlands, Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future, Stockholm International Water Institute, The World Conservation Union, Aquafed, WaterAid, Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council, Women for Water Partnership, World Business Council on Sustainable Development, World Water Council, World Wide Fund for Nature
Now, scientists meeting at World Water Week in Sweden are reinforcing and broadening that point, saying that without serious reforms to the way many Asian countries manage water chronic food shortages may result — even without the impact of climate change on water supplies: Food & Feed Demand to Double by 2050 In Revitalizing Asia's Irrigation, the International Water Management Institute and the UN Food and Agricultural Organization say that food and animal feed demand in Asia is expected to double by 2050 and that relying on trade to supply this will «impose a huge and politically untenable burden on the economies of many developing countries.»
Project partners: RUAF Foundation (coordination, the Netherlands); Applied Plant Research International of the Wageningen University and Research Centre (The Netherlands); School of Forestry of the University of Florida (USA); The International Water Management Institute (Sri Lanka); The Ministry of Agriculture, Agrarian Development, Minor Irrigation, Industries and Environment of Western Province (Sri Lanka); Kesbewa Urban Council (Sri Lanka); The Ministry of Water, Public Services and Environment, Santa Fe Province (Argentina); Municipality of Rosario (Argentina); Institute of Physics — CONICET Rosario (Argentina); The National University of Rosario (Argentina); Comune de Bobo Dioulasso (Burkina Faso); l'Institut d'Application et de Vulgarisation en Sciences (Burkina Faso); Kathmandu Metropolitan City Office (Nepal); Institute for Social and Environmental Transition (Nepal).