Capacity Development for Farm Management Strategies to Improve Crop-Water Productivity using AquaCrop
The workshop objective is to train participants in the practical applications of the FAO crop model AquaCrop in order to improve their skills in strategic farm management practices toward increasing crop water productivity in rainfed and irrigated production systems.
| What | Workshop, Asia |
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| When |
Aug 09, 2009 10:00 AM
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Aug 13, 2009 08:00 PM |
| Where | Tehran, Iran |
| Contact Name | aquacrop@fao.org |
| Attendees |
project managers, researchers, irrigation engineers, extension specialists, |
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Global demand for fresh water is constantly rising as a consequence of population growth. Agriculture withdraws the largest water volume, but is also a relatively low-value and low efficiency user. In the years to come the agricultural sector will compete with households and industry for increasingly scarce water resources, and yet is under pressure to produce more food. The overall future scenario is further aggravated by the impact of climate change. User-friendly simulation models can be valuable tools to asses crop yield under limited water.
