Conference theme and Sub topics

Conference theme:” Role of Irrigation and Drainage in Food Security: Towards Attaining the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)”
One of the first objectives of the MDGs is to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger by 2015. The 2007 update indicates that from their adoption in 2000, the 2015 target date for achieving the Millennium Development Goals, Sub- Saharan Africa is not on track to achieve any of the Goals. However there have been major gains in some areas and the Goals remain achievable in most African nations. We shall examine the practice of irrigation in providing food and as a strategy for poverty reduction in Africa. We shall also examine the role of irrigation and drainage in attaining the Millennium Development Goals, the progress made so far and the way forward.
Sub Topics:

• Food Production and Income Generation through Irrigated Agriculture.
• The role of Private Public Partnership in irrigated agriculture in poverty reduction.
• Performance appraisal of different irrigation systems towards achieving Millennium Development Goals and the way forward.
• Irrigated Agriculture as a strategy for poverty reduction in developing countries.
• Environmental sustainability and pursuit of the Millennium Development Goals