Events
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7-9 Mar 2016 – Wageningen, Netherlands
EURO-AGRIWAT
The theme of the conference is: "water footprint of agricultural products: progress, challenges and solutions". Water represents a main resource for human activities. Together with food and energy production, water scarcity is one of the most outstanding problems for society. In most European regions agricultural production is an intensive water consumer. Therefore, these systems are very vulnerable to a potential decrease in water availability.
In 2011 a European Concerted Research Action (COST) started, aimed at the assessment of EUROpean AGRIculture WATer use and trade under climate change (EURO-AGRIWAT). EURO-AGRIWAT aims to prepare and disseminate recommendations and guidelines for enabling more efficient water resource management in relation to agricultural activities under climate change and variability, and involves collaboration between scientists and stakeholders. From 7-9 March 2016 the final EURO-AGRIWAT conference will be held, with the above theme.Organised by The project consortium.