The research agenda of the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food will be launched at a special scientific conference that will bring together several hundred scientists with development stakeholders to present and debate key issues around increasing water productivity in agriculture and the impacts on poverty alleviation and on food, health and environmental security in the program's benchmark basins.
Baseline Conference for the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food -
Nairobi, November 2-6, 2003
The research agenda of the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food will be
launched at a special scientific conference that will bring together
several hundred scientists with development stakeholders to present and debate
key issues around increasing water productivity in agriculture and the impacts
on poverty alleviation and on food, health and environmental security in the
program's benchmark basins. The Conference will result in a number of action-
oriented recommendations from stakeholders on how to implement the CGIAR
Challenge Program on Water and Food to achieve
the highest impact.
Participants will be engaged to provide input and guidance on the program; on
how it can deliver solutions that are politically and socially acceptable,
financially and technically feasible and can be implemented in a practical way.
For further information contact [email protected]
or log on to http://www.waterforfood.org
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