Organizer: The Water Channel


Date: September 28, 2011 (Click here to check what time that would be in your time zone.)

The Water Channel was launched at the World Water Forum in 2009 in Istanbul as a partnership of MetaMeta Communications, Nymphaea, UNESCO-IHE, and Cap-Net. The idea was to support education and awareness in water by making video material available that is often scattered and easily lost. It wanted to 'touch' its visitors and to help inspire them to work towards a world of better water management. The first year exceeded the expectations in terms of uptake and content! Joint projects were carried out with a wide variety of organizations and new partners joined in.

Description:

With support from IFAD, The Water Channel started a series of webinars (web-based seminars) on a variety of topics under three themes related to rural poverty alleviation:

• Access to water
• Groundwater buffers for climate change adaptation
• Sustainable land management

The webinars will be organised together with our partners UNESCO-IHE and Cap-Net, and will feature some well-known experts on these topics. The webinars will be collaborative; the participants will be able to communicate with the resource persons in real-time. Apart from lectures, there will be key resources, polls and question-answer sessions.


Topic: Water and food: Agricultural flows and water markets

Worldwide, our freshwater resources are depleting. Many even argue that we have reached the point of crisis. Some people claim the end of abundant water means the beginning of food shortage. But that’s not necessarily going to happen.  Food shortages and water shortages are both caused by prices that are too low or policies that block trade from surplus to deficit areas.

We need to retool institutions that govern water supply and use, that were designed in a context when water was abundant. This webinar will discuss physical and institutional dimensions affecting agricultural water flows, farmers’ irrigation and crop decisions, distortions caused by faulty policies and how water markets can be harnessed to manage scarcity.

Speaker: 

David Zetland, Wageningen University

Registration:

You can register for the webinars on http://webinar.thewaterchannel.tv. The site contains learning material from previous webinars and announcements about upcoming ones.


Contact Details:

The Water Channel

Costerweg 1-d

6702 AA Wageningen

The Netherlands

+31 (0)317 35 11 51
email : 
info@thewaterchannel.tv
Website: www.thewaterchannel.tv/en/home