Events
National stakeholders involved in agricultural water management in Rwanda will meet in Kigali next 31 March for a national workshop to analyze the scaling up of the agricultural water management technologies identified in the needs assessment phase.
A participatory mapping workshop will be organized in Kigali from 29 to 30 March with stakeholders from Rwanda including representatives from the government, NGOs, practitioners and farmers associations. This workshop has the objective to define livelihood zones and to identify where the agricultural water management solutions identified in the needs assessment have the greatest potential in the country.
Watch the World Water Day Celebration Live 13:00 CET - 22.03.2017 >>
World Water Day, celebrated on 22 March annually since 1993, aims to bring attention to the importance of freshwater and advocate the sustainable management of freshwater resources. The Sustainable Development Goals, launched in 2015, include a dedicated Water Goal making water a key element of the 2030 Development Agenda. This year's World Water Day theme focuses on wastewater as an untapped resource and the campaign, ‘Why waste water?’ is about reducing and reusing wastewater.
Globally, over 80% of the wastewater generated by...
The Symposium will be a scientific meeting, held over three days at FAO Headquarters in Rome, Italy from 21-23 March 2017 with 300-500 participants representing all geographical regions and countries of the world.
Leading SOC experts will be invited to provide keynote presentations on the following main themes:
- Assessment, measurement, mapping, reporting and monitoring of SOC
- Maintaining and/or increasing SOC stocks (fostering...
Through studies of land-cover and land-use change (LCLUC), NASA is developing interdisciplinary scientific approaches combining aspects of physical, social, and economic sciences with a high level of societal relevance, using remote sensing tools, methods and data. LCLUC studies use a combination of space observations, in situ measurements, process studies and numerical modelling as well as social and economic science research on land use.
On a global scale, such studies became possible when the first satellite of the Landsat series was launched about 45 years ago. Since then, land-change science has been rapidly evolving to be able to explain where the changes...