event 20 Mar 2018 time 15:48

World Water Forum // Water-Food Nexus High Level Panel

This knowledgeable, high-level panel will deliver insights on the sustainable agricultural intensification of on existing land. Discussion topics will include: technologies that support increased agricultural productivity; best practices to promote efficient water use in agriculture and food production; managing water through the food chain, including preventing food loss and food waste; conflict resolution among multiple water users; using big data, spatial information and in-field sensors to optimize agricultural production; verticalization of production and water use in new agricultural development areas; water storage to improve availability for production and infrastructure financing to measure and manage surface and groundwater resources.

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Panel at the 8th World Water Forum in Brazil.

Key messages presented by panelists and captured from the moderator and audience questions will be summarized in a formal document following the event.

Where and when

Águas Claras Auditorium

20 Mar 2018
11am-12.30pm

Panelists

  • José Graziano da Silva, director general of the Food and Agriculture Organization
  • Tom Vilsack, president of the U.S. Dairy Export Council and former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture
  • Laura Tuck, World Bank, vice president, Sustainable Development
  • Isabel García Tejerina, Minister of Agricultura, Pesca, Alimentação e Meio Ambiente of Spain
  • Mauricio Antonio Lopes, president, Embrapa
  • Celestino Zanella, president, Association of Farmers and Irrigators of Bahia (AIBA), Brazil

Moderator:

  • Peter G. McCornick, executive director, Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute, University of Nebraska

Organiser

Contact

  • Christopher Neale, director of research, Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute, University of Nebraska
  • Charles S. Wortmann, professor, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; DWFI Faculty Fellow

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