Free Webinar - Managing Water for Food Security

Today, nearly a billion people in the world are food-insecure-- without access to enough nutritious food to lead healthy and active lives. Many food-insecure people are also water-insecure, without enough readily available water to meet their needs. This webinar will introduce the overall challenge of ensuring sustainable global food and water security in the wake of population and income increases, a changing climate and the growing demand for water resources, with a special focus on practical ways to improve water use and management in agricultural and food systems

In this webinar we will touch on several subject areas that are central to water and food security, including:

• Closing water and agricultural productivity gaps
• Sustainable groundwater management and irrigated agriculture
• Drought management techniques

The webinar will also briefly describe the work of the Water for Food Institute and its mission to have a lasting and significant impact on achieving food security with less pressure on scarce water resources through scientific and policy research, education and communication.

Presented by: Roberto Lenton, Founding Executive Director, Water for Food Institute at the University of Nebraska, and Professor of Biological Systems Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. A specialist in water resources and sustainable development with some 40 years of international experience in the field.

Registration: register here | Find out more: http://www.engineeringforchange.org/webinar/january-webinar/

Time: 11:00 am EST | 17:00 Brussels time (convert to your time here)