Thematic session on Water for Food Security

Chairperson: AMCOW
Rapporteur: Doug Merrey, IWMI

DAY 1 - Monday 8 December 2003

14:00 - 14:15 Registration

Joint Opening Session

14:15 - 14:30 Opening Statement - Vice Minister of Water Resources, Ethiopia.

14:30 - 15:00 Keynote paper on Agriculture, Food and Water.

S. Pazvakavambwa, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Rural Resources and Water Development, Zimbabwe.

15:00 - 15:15 Break

Parallel session

15:15 - 16:00 Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) and Food.

Security: Striking a balance between rainfed and irrigated agriculture.

• L. Robaux, International Office for Water.

• M. Sonou, FAO.

16:00 - 16:45 Discussions

16:45 - 17:30 Agricultural water productivity in the context of increasing water competition.

- Hilmy Sally, IWMI.

- Ahmed Abdallah Ahmed

17:30 - 18:15 Discussions

DAY 2 - Tuesday 9 December 2003

09:00 - 09:30 Opportunities for investing in agricultural water management.

- S. Darghouth, WB.

- J.-M. Faures, FAO.

09:30 - 10:00 Irrigation and poverty alleviation.

- D. Merrey, IWMI

- I.K. Musa, Director, Federal Department of

- Irrigation and Drainage, Nigeria.

10:00 - 10:45 Discussions

10:45 - 11:15 Break

Joint Closing session

11:15 - 12:30 Review and finalization of recommendations to be submitted to the Ministerial session.