Making agricultural

growth happen

Jochen Froebrich

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Alterra - International expertise in Land AND Water management

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to anticipate water stress problems by an effective combination of leading science AND wider implementation in practice

to deliver approaches for increasing agricultural production at catchment scale without violating Sustainable Production Thresholds (SPT)

SPT: upper limits - beyond which an increase in agricultural production may lead to environmental and socio-economic damages

The Vision

The Mission

Contribution of the Alterra IWRM team(follow up institution of the

International Institute for Land Reclamation and Improvement (ILRI)

Our Key Programmes

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Aqualidad Mediterranea

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Greening the Desert

Harvest4food

Delta Alliance

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Water stress characterization using Remote SensingCase study Morocco

ETp

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Greening the desert

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Spatio-temporal variability

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MIRAGEAdapting WFD application to Southern European catchments

Aqualidad Mediterranea

Harvest 4 Food

Managing water by managing land WIBIS: Discussion Support Tool

impact of landuse changes on water

productivity and consumption

spatial planning and land management

evapotranspiration after sugar cane introduction

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An exaggeration? Farmers often have good experience where to earn money but are limited in predicting water risks (Water availability is often taken for granted)Water managers have a good understanding of floods and droughts but limited experience with selling products (Often used to get salaries from governmental organizations)

=> Strong need to integrate the development of land and water resources

“Water without producing something from it, is just wet”

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Paradigm change in water management

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Outlook for cooperation with GWP

Contributing to strategic orientation of GWPJoint promotion of concepts for a true integration of land, water and energy managementDevelop and test approaches to enable paradigm changes in water managementUnpacking the concept of Green Growth in selected pilot studies (Zambezi, Nile, Incomati, Limpopo) and supporting the Rio +20 processExtending concepts for transboundary water management to a transboundary management of resources, products and energy Modernize capacity building distant learning and locally based (integrating experience of 50 years ICLD course)

Making green growth happen

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Spatio temporal Water availability Ground and Surface waters

Enhanced irrigation practice and water use efficiency

Water demand management

Water quality control

Protecting Shipping and transportation

Institutional capacity building

Training of farmers and water managers

Secure production at agricultural

corridors

Drought and flood risk management

Applying IWRM

Agricultural market developments