Water Management for Climate Smart Agriculture: The Water/Energy/Food Nexus

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Water Management for Climate Smart Agriculture: The Water/Energy/Food Nexus

Water Management for Climate Smart Agriculture: The Water/Energy/Food Nexus

BACKGROUND

This international technical webinar is part of the series organized by the FAO elearning Academy , Agreenium (l'Institut agronomique, vétérinaire et forestier de France) and UN-ESCAP (United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific).  These webinars are an opportunity for all of us to share experiences and lessons learnt, discuss challenges, and propose innovative solutions and models. They aim to provide a holistic and comprehensive view of current trends in thematic areas related to global challenges, by combining development research and innovation perspectives.

The main objective of these technical webinars is to give practitioners the opportunity to interact with international experts, United Nations officers, University professors, researchers and fellow participants, throughout the world. Webinars can be attended as interactive online sessions on Zoom, where sharing perspectives and asking questions to experts is encouraged. These sessions are also recorded and therefore available at any time, through the FAO elearning Academy: elearning.fao.org .

 

OBJECTIVES OF THE SESSION

  • Present the vulnerability of farming systems to climate change and the need of adaptation choice;
  • Share knowledge on tools and approaches for risk assessment and development of the livelihood approach to prioritize water adaptation options; and
  • Classify irrigation schemes at watershed, river basin and national levels for adaptation at field and farm levels    

SPEAKERS

This international technical webinar will be delivered by Mr Filiberto Altobelli , Agronomist and Research Scientist (CREA), Mr Olivier Barreteau , Senior Water Scientist (INRAE), and moderated by Ms Cristina Petracchi , Leader of the FAO elearning Academy.

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Filiberto Altobelli is an Agronomist and a research scientist at the Research Centre for Agricultural Policies and Bioeconomy, Council for Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA). He worked since 2015 as Agricultural Expert for the Permanent Representative Diplomatic Mission of Italy to UN Rome—based Agencies (FAO, IFAD, WFP and Biodiversity International). He is involved in research on sustainability of environment and economy of natural resources in agriculture, agronomy and field crops. His research interests are mainly related to agricultural meteorology, and to advancing the sustainable use of soil and water resources, as well as natural resource policy and economy focused at sustainable agricultural productivity growth. Filiberto Altobelli received his PhD in improvement and management of agricultural resources and forests from University of Naples Federico II, Napoli, Italy, and M.Sc in Agriculural Science and Tecnology from Tuscia University.

 

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Olivier Barreteau is a senior water scientist at INRAE, and Director of the UMR G-EAU in Montpellier. He has about 25 years of experience of interdisciplinary research at the interface between hydrology, modelling, and management sciences in projects on local water governance, using social simulation with participatory agent based modelling and role playing games in France, Senegal and Thailand. His recent works focus on joint adaptive management of land and water in the frame of global changes with issues of interdependences between local adaptation plans. He is committed to interdisciplinary research, keeping a strong link between policy makers, water users and research on the long term.

 

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Cristina Petracchi heads the FAO elearning Academy. She manages and coordinates the design, development, delivery and language adaptations of an extensive portfolio of elearning courses and blended learning programmes for the benefit of FAO member countries, and is responsible for the creation of University Masters' and Post Graduate Degree Programmes. She engages actively in consolidating partnerships across United Nations agencies, academic institutions and universities, regional organizations, CSOs and NGOs, for capacity development initiatives. In addition to a University Degree in Biological Sciences, Ms Petracchi holds a PhD in Nutrition and Food Science, and has several years of experience of capacity development activities, in a number of countries.

 

 

 

HOW TO ATTEND

 

The webinar is free and open to everyone, provided you have the link to the platform.
To join the webinar session on Zoom, kindly register here .

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