MerWat & IagWat Steering Committee meeting
The steering committee for MerWat & IagWat projects was organised in Tunis on 28th March 2023. The project “Monitoring, evaluation and rationalization of water use for agriculture sector in Libya”(MerWat - OSRO/LIB/002/ITA) aims at supporting monitoring, evaluation, and rationalization of the agriculture use of water, and to enhance agricultural water management performance, particularly water consumption and productivity. The project Evaluation of irrigation, infrastructure crop mapping and estimation of agricultural water use” (MarWat - OSRO/LIB/100/AFB) aims at an improved knowledge on the irrigation infrastructure damages, the impact on water efficiency and crop & water productivity supported by RS technologies, with the overall objective to improve food security in the country by more performant and efficient use of agricultural water. In both projects, the use of geospatial technologies help assessing the status of water management and agricultural infrastructure as well as improving crop and water productivity.