The importance of water scarcity in irrigated agriculture in Spain provides the rationale for this paper, which analyses and evaluates the risk of water shortage on the economic result of this kind of agriculture. The main objective is to monitor this risk on a real-time basis. For this aim, we first estimated a number of regression models that explain irrigated agricultural productivity based on crop price indices, a time trend and water availability. These models, which correct for auto-correlation, yield good explanatory power.

Economic valuation of irrigation water is done through the use of production functions for the case of the olive grove. In order to do so the integration of an agronomic model (based on the production function) and an economic model linked to the profitability of the crop (the ratio of revenue and operating costs) in the area under study is proposed. The study case encompasses the Guadalbullon River Sub-basin area, belonging to the Guadalquivir River Hydrologic Demarcation (Southern Spain).

The conceptual difference between conventional scientific and natural resource management (NRM) research is based on the need for researchers and the NRM community to be joint learning partners in the process. “Managing Natural Resources for Development in Africa” is a collective endeavour to reframe, filter and contextualize some of the main concepts, theories and practices of NRM. It provides up to date information, and discusses approaches that can equip African graduates with the knowledge, skills and attitudes to respond to changes in social and ecological systems.

Voorzitter Henk van Alderwegen van Waterschap Peel en Maasvallei overhandigde op 5 februari 2010 het eerste officiële exemplaar van het boek 'Het brede beekdal als klimaatbestendige buffer in de veranderende leefomgeving' aan Peter Glas, de nieuwe voorzitter van de Unie van Waterschappen. Het boek schetst een beeld van de mogelijkheden van de brede, duurzame inrichting van een beekdal door de toepassing van het zogeheten 5B-concept.

The MASSMUS application presented here has been initialized through a MASSCOTE training workshop in Karnataka for engineers and managers from the KJBNL focussing on Upper Krishna Project in 2009. The contributions of participants made during the working group sessions at this workshop have been largely included in this report.

Meeting Name: European Commission on Agriculture
Meeting symbol/code: ECA 36/10/3
Session: Sess. 36

A potent argument for bioenergy development lies in the ability of the sector to unlock agricultural potential by bringing in much needed investments to raise agricultural productivity to spur food security and poverty reduction. This document presents the BEFS Analytical Framework (AF) developed to test this argument. Agriculture lies at the heart of the BEFS AF and allows governments to consider viable pro-poor strategies for bioenergy development.

Reviews FAO Regional Office for Africa’s activities in 2010, with focus on, among others, the following: Regional Conference for Africa held in Angola, CAADP, climate change, agriculture data tool kit on gender, forestry management, country assistance programmes and activities in South Africa, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Liberia, Uganda and Ethiopia.

Meeting symbol/code: ALAWUC/NE/10

This report describes the application of MASSMUS in Kirindi Oya Irrigation and Settlement Project (KOISP) Sri Lanka.