CONFERENCE PROGRAM Tuesday, 10 September, 2013

GREAT HALL

9:00 – 9:30 Registration

9:30 – 10:30 Great Hall: Opening Ceremony

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break

11:00 – 11:30 Crop Evapotranspiration: the 15 years of FAO 56

Keynote Speech, Luis Santos Pereira

Session 1: Water Use Performance and Water Productivity

Chairman: Nebo Jovanovic

11:30 – 11:45

Assessing yield and water productivity of peas (Pisum sativum L. cv. Azarro) in a Mediterranean environment

Paula Paredes, Gonçalo C Rodrigues, Luis S Pereira

11:45 – 12:00

Dual crop coefficient modeling applied to soybean: basal crop coefficients and soil evaporation component

Zheng Wei, Yu Liu, Wei Wei Chi, Paula Paredes, Luis S. Pereira

12:00 – 12:15 Distributed simulation of agro-hydrological processes and assessment of water productivity in irrigated areas of the middle Heihe River basin

Yao Jiang, Xu Xu, Guanhua Huang

12:15 – 12:30 Accurate large-scale irrigation performance assessment with a poor dataset

Nicolas Feltz, Marnik Vanclooster

12:30 – 12:45 “WP_optimizer” to improve water productivity in irrigated agriculture in Egypt

Samar M. Attaher, Nahla Zaki and Muhammed Karrou

12:45 – 13:00

Effect of different fertilization and irrigation methods on nitrogen uptake, water and radiation use efficiency of okra grown in the Keta sand spit, Ghana

Eric Oppong Danso, Stephen Abenney-Mickson, Edward Benjamin Sabi, Finn Plauborg, Yvonne Ohui Kugblenu, Christian Richard

Jensen, Mark Abekoe and Mathias Neuman Andersen

13:00 – 13:15 The influence of feeding strategies on water productivity in dairy farming

Michael Krauß, Simone Kraatz, Katrin Drastig

13:15 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 14:30 POSTER SESSION,

Media Centre Hall

14:30 – 15:00 Evapotranspiration Estimation with FAO56 Methodology: The Next Fifteen Years

Keynote Speech, Richard G. Allen

Session 2: Conservation agriculture and water saving

Chairman: Yahya Shakhatreh

15:00 – 15:15

WADIS-MAR - Water harvesting and Agricultural techniques in Dry lands: an Integrated and Sustainable model in Maghreb Regions

Giorgio Ghiglieri, Gabriela Afrasinei, Claudio Arras, Mohamedou Oulb Baba Sy, Manuela Barbieri, Oumelkheir Belkheiri, Mongi Ben Zaied, Cristina Buttau, Alberto Carletti, Abdelkader Dodo, Giuseppe Enne, Antonio Funedda, Ileana Ioccola, Luigi Ledda,

Roberta Lobina, Elhadj Meftah, Maria Teresa Melis, Abdelouhab Messaudane, Kamel Nagaz, Arezki Ouldamara, Mohamed Ouessar, Daniele Pittalis, Pier Paolo Roggero, Mouski Said, Mongi Sghaier, Albert Soler i Gil, Rachid Taibi, Clara Torrentó,

Salvatore Virdis,

Chiara Zanolla, Houcine Yahyaoui, Abderezak Zahrouna

15:15 – 15:30

Co-design of innovations for sustainable small-holder irrigation:

The EAU4Food project case study in South Africa

Nebo Jovanovic, Constansia Musvoto, Willem De Clercq, Andrei Rozanov, Cou Pienaar, Nathaniel Mason, Brilliant Petja, Jochen Froebrich, Erik Querner, Jannike Wichern, Xueliang Cai

15:30 – 15:45

The Experimental Study of Influence of Biochar on Different Texture Soils Hydraulic Characteristic Parameters and Moisture Holding properties

Tian Dan，Qu Zhong-Yi, Gou Mang-Mang Li Bo，Lv Yi-Jia

15:45 – 16:00

Role of plastic mulch on soil moisture availability for kiwifruit vines

M. Isabel. Valín, Raquel Pontes, Carlos Marques,

Celestina M. G. Pedras

16:00 – 16:15

Pest control and mitigation of the heat stress with kaolin may also lead to save water in Mediterranean environments

Francesca Boari, Mladen Todorovic, Antonio Donadio, Maria Immacolata Schiattone, Vito Cantore

16:15 – 16:30

Irrigation with magnetic water, a novel tool for improving crop productivity

and water use efficiency

Mahmoud Hozayn, Amany Abd El-Monem, Maha El-Shatter

16:30 – 16:45

Smallholders Minimum Tillage Planter Adoption in Bangladesh: A successful case of private sector involvement for technology c ommercialization

M. Enamul Haque, Sania Rahman Nabila, Richard W. Bell

16:45 – 17:15 Coffee Break

17:15 – 18:45 Elsevier Author and Reviewer Workshop

Elaine van Ommen Kloeke, Nebo Jovanovic

Wednesday, 11 September, 2013

GREAT HALL

9:00 – 9:30 Assessing the productivity and resource-use-efficiency of underutilised crops:

towards a integrative system

Keynote Speech, Sayed Azam-Ali

Session 4: Decision Support Systems and modeling tools

Chairman: Enrique Playan

9:30 – 9:45

Hydro-Tech, an integrated decision support system for sustainable irrigation management: (I) main algorithms and field testing

Mladen Todorovic, Vito Cantore, Erminio E. Riezzo, Mario Zippitelli, Angelo Gagliano, Vito Buono

9:45 – 10:00

Tools to support water management in agriculture under policy and climate change. The Trebbia irrigation district experience.

Guido M. Bazzani, Roberto Genovesi, Paolo Mannini

10:00 – 10:15

Modelling approach for agriculture water management

Noemi Mancosu, Morteza Orang, Sara Sarreshteh, Richard L. Snyder, Donatella Spano

10:15 – 10:30 The Application of Simulation Models for Assessment and Impact Analysis of Drought and Water Requirements at Different Scales

Gerrit Hoogenboom, Melba Salazar, Jakarat Anothai, Cecilia Tojo Soler

10:30 – 10:45

AquaCrop as a decision support tool to assess the effect of field management on crop water productivity

Hanne Van Gaelen, Dirk Raes, Jan Diels

10:45 – 11:00

Comparing AquaCrop and CropSyst models in simulating barley growth under different water and Nitrogen regimes. Does calibration year influence the performance of crop growth models?

Marie Therese Abi Saab, Mladen Todorovic, Rossella Albrizio

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 – 11:45

Design guidelines for surface irrigation modernization in Hetao Irrigation District. An application of the DSS Websadreg

Miao Qingfeng, José Manuel Gonçalves, Carla Mendes, André Muga, Paula Paredes, Shi Haibin, Luis Santos Pereira

11:45 – 12:00 Design of sprinkler irrigation subunit of minimum cost with proper operation. Application at corn crop in Spain

Francisco Carrión, Amaro del Castillo, José M. Tarjuelo, Patricio Planells P, Miguel. A.Moreno

12:00 – 12:15

Rainfed maize in Inner Mongolia: evapotranspiration partitioning and groundwater contribution

Yao Wu, Tingxi Liu，Luis S. Pereira，Paula Paredes, Limin Duan

12:15 – 12:30

Calibration and validation of the Hydrus - 1D model to simulate soil water balance of maize under full and deficit irrigation

Maria G. Gonzalez, Tiago B. Ramos, Reimar Carlesso Zanandra B. Oliveira, Juliano D. Martins, Paula. Paredes, Mirta T. Petry, Luis S. Pereira

12:30 – 12:45

Modelling maize deficit irrigation in Galicia (NW Spain)

Javier J. Cancela, María Fandiño, Emma M. Martínez, P. Paredes, R. Rosa, Benjamín J. Rey, Luis S. Pereira

12:45 – 13:00 Adaptation of water planning to climatic and hydrogeological changes

Galina V. Stulina, G.F. Solodkiy

13:00 – 13:15 Solid-set sprinkler irrigation controllers driven by simulation models: opportunities and bottlenecks

Enrique Playán, Raquel Salvador, Cristina López, Sergio Lecina, Farida Dechmi and Nery Zapata

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 14:30 POSTER SESSION,

Media Centre Hall

Wednesday, 11 September, 2013

GREAT HALL

14:30 – 15:00 Managing water in agriculture under increasing scarcity:

Need for a paradigm change

Keynote Speech, Theib Y. Oweis

Session 3: Sustainability of groundwater exploitation for agriculture

Chairman: José M. Tarjuelo

15:00 – 15:15

GeSAP: a management tool to evaluate the acceptability of irrigation constraint measures for groundwater protection

Ciro Apollonio, Ivan Portoghese, Daniela D’Agostino, Raffaele Giordano, Stefania Ingravalle, Nicola Lamaddalena, Alberto F. Piccinni,

Alessandra Scardigno, Michele Vurro

15:15 – 15:30

Comparative study for Estimating Ground‐Water Recharge from Hydrograph Analysis and Groundwater Fluctuations in Semiarid to dry subhumid Region - Case Study of Al-Khazir Gomal Basin North of Iraq

Hussein Abed Jassas, Merkel

15:30 – 15:45

The sustainability of groundwater exploitation for agriculture in the case of a wide coastal karstic aquifer (Salento, Southern Italy)

Andrea Romanazzi, Francesco Gentile, Giuliana Trisorio Liuzzi, Maurizio Polemio

15:45 – 16:00

Irrigation Delivery Performance Versus Environmental Externalities: A Risk Assessment and Management Perspective

Daniele Zaccaria, Giuseppe Passarella, Daniela Dagostino, Raffaele Giordano

16:00 – 16:15 Groundwater Recharge in Titas Upazila in Bangladesh

Wael Kanoua, Merkel

16:15 – 16:30

The KNOW project (implementing the Knowledge of NitrOgen in groundWater) implementation in a NVZ Sardinian area

Daniele Pittalis, Giorgio Ghiglieri, Riccardo Biddau, Cristina Buttau, Alberto Carletti, Clara Demurtas, Luca Doro, MariaTeresa Melis; Maria Antonia Pulina, Giovanna Seddaiu, Pier Paolo

Roggero, Rosa Cidu

16:30 – 16:45 Groundwater dynamics at irrigated field scale: Case study from Lower-Mondego Irrigation District, Portugal

Manuel Nunes, José Manuel Gonçalves, João L. M. P. de Lima, Luis Santos Pereira

16:45 – 17:15 Coffee break

Thursday, 12 September, 2013

GREAT HALL MEDIA CENTRE HALL

9:00 – 9:30 The EU-funded Sustainable Water Integrated Management Programme and its Support Mechanism (SWIM-SM): taking stock of the project

Barbara Tomassini

9:30 – 11:00 Session 5: Innovative data acquisition and information and

communication technologies

Chairman: Guido D’Urso

9:30 – 9:45

Satellite-based Irrigation Advisory Services: a common tool for different experiences from Europe to Australia

Guido D’Urso, Carlo De Michele, Francesco Vuolo, Michael Cutting

9:45 – 10:00

Crop coefficients derived from METRIC and SIMDualKc models for discontinuous woody crops. A remote sensing application to

a super intensive olive grove

Isabel Pôças,António Nogueira, Teresa Apaço, Mário Cunha, José Silvestre, Francisco L Santos, Luís S Pereira

10:00 – 10:15 Crop evapotranspiration through the use of satellite images

Enrique Palacios-Vélez, Héctor Flores-Magdaleno

10:15 – 10:30

Assessment of Soil Water Content based on Remote Sensing Techniques. Case study of kiwi Orchard in Portugal

Celestina M.G. Pedras, Maria Isabel Valín, Helena Fernandez,

Fernando Martins

10:30 – 10:45

Use of pyranometers for continuous estimation of ground cover fraction in orchards

A. Martínez‐Cob, J. M. Faci, O. Blanco, E.T. Medina,

K. Suvočarev

10:45 – 11:00

An approach for delineating homogeneous within-field zones using

proximal sensing and multivariate geostatistics

Carla Landrum, Annamaria Castrignanò, Tom Mueller , Demetrio Zourarakis, Junfeng Zhu

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 – 12:00 Landscape irrigation requirements and scheduling

Keynote speech, Richard L. Snyder

Session 5: Innovative data acquisition and information and communication technologies

Chairman: Guido D’Urso

12:00 – 12:15

Evaluation of physiological and biometric parameters of potato Solanum

tuberosum L. under different water regimes by proximate sensing

Aicha Hammaoui, Rossella Albrizio, Vito Buono , Mladen Todorovic

12:15 – 12:30

Reference evapotranspiration estimation for the Mediterranean region

using reanalysis datasets

Tayeb Raziei, Diogo Martins, Isabella Bordi, Arash Parehkar, Mladen Todorovic and Luis S. Pereira

12:30 – 12:45

Estimating reference evapotranspiration using weather forecast data in

Southern Brazil

Zanandra B. de Oliveira, Mirta T. Petry, Reimar Carlesso, Luis S. Pereira, Milene S. Teixeira

12:45 – 13:00

Developing an intelligent overhead irrigation system for high quality

horticultural field crops

Jerry Knox, Andre Daccache, Tim Hess, and Keith Weatherhead

13:00 – 13:15

Determination of leaf area index in vineyard using Unmanned Aerial

Vehicles UAV

Rocío Ballesteros, José Fernando Ortega, David Hernandez, Miguel Ángel Moreno

13:15 – 14:15 Lunch

14:15 – 14:45 POSTER SESSION

ORAL SESSIONS

14:45 – 16:45

Session 6: Irrigation technologies and management practices for

environmental upgrading

Chairman: Guanhua Huang

Session 7: Use of treated and low quality water in agriculture

Chairman: Antonio Coppola

14:45 – 15:00

Effect of the start-stop cycle of the drive towers of a pivot on the water distribution pattern

Nery Zapata, Sofiane Ouazaa, Javier Burguete, Alfredo Serreta, Enrique Playán and Borja Latorre

Water4Crops: A twin project for Integrating biotreated wastewater reuse and agro-food wastewater valorization with enhanced water use

efficiency to support the Green Economy in Europe and India

Antonio Lopez and Roberta Lamaddalena

15:00 – 15:15

Evaluating and Modeling solid-set sprinklers irrigation of the field borders

Ouazaa Sofiane, Burguete Javier and Zapata Nery

Properties of the filtrate from processing of the pig manure by filtration method

Zygmunt Kowalski, Józef Hoffman, Krystyna Hoffmann, Agnieszka Makara

15:15 – 15:30

Performances of subsurface drip irrigation compared to a raingun irrigation system for maize under water-restrictive conditions in a

Mediterranean climate

Rami Albasha*, Jean-Marie Lopez, Jean-Claude Mailhol,

Pierre Ruelle

Comparison of methods for determining soil C-CO2 flux and analysis of the factors that affecting the flux, in growth of sugarcane irrigated with

treated sewage by SDI

Eduardo A.A. Barbosa, Edson E. Matsura, Janaina B. Carmo,Ivo Z. Gonçalves, Daniel R.C. Feitosa, Natália F. Tuta, Leonardo N.S.

Santos, Aline A. Nazario

15:30 – 15:45

Effects of drip, sprinkler and basin irrigation on micro-climate and fungal

infection in winter wheat in the North China Plain

Yuxuan Wang, Shamaila Zia, Zhenfang Hu, Xiongkui He, Joachim Müller

Degradation of antibiotics in livestock wastewaters for environmental

protection: laboratorial experimentation using ligninolytic fungi

Maria P. Amador, Ruben M. Fernandes, Heleno Abreu, Isabel M. Duarte, Maria L. Brito, Mário P. Barreto, Maria C. Prudêncio

15:45 – 16:00 Simulation of water flow and heat transport in a drip-irrigated onion

under plastic mulch

Jianhua Zheng, Guanhua Huang, Jun Wang, Quanzhong Huang, Haijun Liu

Parameterizing macroscopic root water uptake under salt stress and

non-uniform salt distribution: II. Field-scale experiments

N. Chaali, G. Dragonetti, D. Hijazeen, N. Lamaddalena, M. Todorovic, R. Albrizio, Comegna and A. Coppola

16:00 – 16:15

Small hydro power implementation in an existing irrigation network of a

Water User Association Southern Italy

Angelo Nicotra*, Vincenzo Tamburino, Demetrio Antonio Zema,

Santo Marcello Zimbone

Saline water use: effects on soil salinity and alfalfa production under

date palms in the Algerian Oasis.

Cherfouh Rabia, Alkama Nora, Merouki Kamel, Derridj Arezki

16:15 – 16:30

Linking Crop Water Stress Index CWSI and water stress coefficient Ks

to support irrigation scheduling of wheat grown in Mediterranean environments

Vito Buono, Yamen Georges, Vito Cantore, Awadis Arslan,

Mladen Todorovic

SWIM Sustain Water MED Network of Demonstration Activities for

Sustainable Integrated Wastewater Treatment and Reuse in the Mediterranean - The Jordanian pilot project

Ismail Al Baz and Irene Sander

16:30 – 16:45

New Apulia Nitrates Action Plan: identification of suitable policies aimed to reduce water pollution and improve environmental sustainability on

regional scale

Angelantonio Calabrese, Valeria Ancona, Vito Felice Uricchio, Claudia Campanale, Maria Antonia Iannarelli

On the effectiveness of reusing treated wastewaters by infiltration ponds in coastal farmlands. Preliminary investigation on insights from the

Korba site, Tunisia (SWIM-IMPROWARE)

Habib Chaieb, Rekaya Moncef, Nabiha Ouerfelli, Mario Laghi, Luca Magagnini, Omar Tosatto, Andrea De Angelis, Flavia Sollazzo,

Pietro Teatini

16:45 – 17:00

Managing modern irrigation technologies for the sustainable use of

water in Mediterranean agriculture

Manpriet Singh, Ettore Capri, Jeremy Dyson, Romano De Vivo

Water multi-purpose reuse case study: the Yarqon River Rehabilitation

Project

Xavier Garcia, David Pargament

17:00 – 17:30 Coffee break

17:30 – 18:30 Session 8: Climate change: adaptation and mitigation

Chairman: Gerrit Hoogenboom

CIGR Section I Land and Water

General Assembly open for audience

17:30 – 17:45

Assessing irrigated crops’ adaptability under future climate: the interplay of water management and cultivars’ responses

Francesca De Lorenzi, Antonello Bonfante, Angelo Basile,

Silvia Maria Alfieri, Eugenia Monaco, Massimo Menenti

17:45 – 18:00

Improving wheat agricultural practices to cope with climate change effects in Jordan (ACLIMAS-SWIM)

Yahya Shakhatreh, Pedro Carvalho, John Foulkes, Iyad Musallam,

Faddel Ismail, Yahya Bani Khalaf

18:00 – 18:15

Climate change and Mediterranean agriculture: (II) Impacts on wheat and tomato yields and water productivity

Sameh Saadi, Mladen Todorović and Luis Santos Pereira

18:15 – 18:30

Assessing the adaptive capacity of durum wheat cultivars to future

climate

Eugenia Monaco, Angelo Basile, Francesca De Lorenzi, Roberto De Mascellis, Silvia Maria Alfieri and Massimo Menenti

Friday, 13 September, 2013

GREAT HALL MEDIA CENTRE HALL

9:00 – 9:30 Adaptation strategies for agricultural water management

under climate change

Keynote speech, Ana Iglesias

Session 8: Climate change: adaptation and mitigation

Chairman: Gerrit Hoogenboom

Session 9: Drought/Flood risk management

Chairman: Zornitsa Popova

9:30 – 9:45

Optimising irrigation practices of durum wheat and spring barley to cope

with climate change effects in Jordan (ACLIMAS-SWIM)

Pedro Carvalho, John Foulkes, Yahya Shakhatreh, Iyad Musallam, Faddel Ismail, Yahya Bani Khalaf

Using drought indicators to support drought risk management

in irrigated agriculture

Ana Paulo, Luís S.Pereira

9:45 – 10:00

Adapting to climate change: testing possible measures to stabilize wheat

and barley yields in a Mediterranean environment (ACLIMAS-SWIM)

Marie Therese Abi Saab, Rossella Albrizio, Musa Nimah, Pasquale Giorio, Mohamed Houssemeddine Sellemi, Suzi Rouphael, Ihab

Jomaa, Randa Massaad, Salim Fahed, Rabih Kabalan, Chafic Stephan, Marica Abi Nader

Streamflow Drought Index modelling through Standardized Precipitation Index assisted by service-oriented paradigm

Borislava Blagojević, Vladislava Mihailović, Milan Gocić,

Slaviša Trajković

10:00 – 10:15

Prediction of climate change impacts on cotton yields in Greece under eight climatic models using the AquaCrop crop simulation model.

Dimitrios Voloudakis, Garifalia Economou, Vasilios Kotoulas, Petros Vahamidis, Andreas Karamanos, John Kapsomenakis

Drought and climate variability impacts on Bulgarian agriculture: the case of rainfed maize

Z. Popova, M. Ivanova, D. Martins, L.S. Pereira, K. Doneva, V. Alexandrov, M. Kercheva

10:15 – 10:30

Impacts of climate change on olives crop evapotranspiration and irrigation water requirements in the Mediterranean region

Lazar Tanasijevic, Mladen Todorovic, Claudia Pizzigalli, Piero Lionello, Luis S. Pereira

Assessing drought cycles using a Fourier analysis

Elsa E. Moreira , Diogo S. Martins, João T. Mexia, Luıs S. Pereira

10:30 – 10:45

Adaptation to climate change of irrigation management of Peach tree

cultivars

Silvia Maria Alfieri, Angelo Basile, Francesca De Lorenzi, Eugenia Monaco, Antonello Bonfante, Maria Riccardi, Daniele Missere

,

Claudio Buscaroli, Massimo Menenti

Studies on runoff and erosion rates in Eastern Romania.

Nelu Popa, Dumitru Nistor, Eugen Filiche, Gabriel Petrovici

10:45 – 11:00

Modeling Climate Change Impact on the Water Balance of a Coastal

Watershed in Lebanon

Ivan Portoghese, Sagedah Saqallah, Michele Vurro, Talal Darwish, Amin Shaban, Roula Khadra

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 – 12:00 Achieving ethical responsibilities in water management: a challenge

Keynote speech, Giuseppe Rossi Paradiso

12:00 – 13:15 Session 11: Policies, governance and institutional development

Chairman: Viktor Dukhovni

12:00 – 12:15

Connecting science with policy and innovation in order to improve water management in Europe

Gaëlle Nion, Natacha Amorsi, Beatriz Medina, Darla Nickel, Ulf Stein, Johanna von Toggenburg, Andrea Goltara, Marta Borucka, Silviu

Lacatusu, Terry Simms

12:15 – 12:30

MEDSPRING: an example of open dialogue between research, civil

society and policy makers

Gaetano Ladisa, Marinella Giannelli, Claudio Bogliotti

12:30 – 12:45

Rural Water Access and Management Approaches in Southern Africa: Lessons from Namibia and South Africa

Selma Karuaihe, Charles Nhemachena, Alfons Mosimane, Omu Kakujaha-Matundu

12:45 – 13:00

Irrigation advisory service

in “Baixo Acaraù” irrigable area

Juan Córcoles, Jose Frizzone, Silvio Vieira-Lima, Francisco de Souza, Christopher Neale

13:00 – 13.15 SWIM All Across the Jordan: Trans-boundary FoEME Master Plan of the

Lower Jordan River Basin

Nader Al Khatib

13:15 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 14:30 POSTER SESSION

Session 10: Socio-economic aspects of land and water management

Chairman: Gerrit-Jan Carsjens

14:30 – 14:45 Hydro-economic modelling to assess climate changes impact on

agriculture water management in a semi-arid region

Daniela D’Agostino, Alessandra Scardigno, Daniel El Chami, Nicola Lamaddalena

14:45 – 15:00 Economic Impacts of Salinity on Livelihoods:

The case of Al-Musayyeb in Iraq

Boubaker Dhehibi, Roberto Telleria, Aden Aw-Hassan, Saad Hatem Mohamed, Feras Ziadat and Weicheng Wu

15:00 – 15:15 The role of traditional irrigation canals in a long term environmental

perspective. A case study in southern France: The Durance basin

Aspe Chantal, Jacqué Marie

15:15 – 15:30 The Criticality of Integrating Local Agro-Economic Institutions into Paradigms for LDC Poverty Reduction in the Anthropocene

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Michael Davidson

15:30 – 16:30

Session 12: Water-food-energy nexus, eco-efficiency

and ecological footprint

Chairman: Reimar Carlesso

15:30 – 15:45

Moving water use efficiency up the food chain: addressing water footprints of food consumption and food wastage in the Mediterranean

Roberto Capone, Hamid El Bilali, Philipp Debs, Gianluigi Cardone,

Nicola Lamaddalena

15:45 – 16:00

Agri-irrigation systems under innovation: Prospects and difficulties of eco-efficiency improvements

Les Levidow, Rodrigo Maia, Mladen Todorovic, Eduardo Vivas, Daniele Zaccaria, Alessandra Scardigno

16:00 – 16:15

Eco-efficiency of a large irrigation scheme in Southern Italy: system mapping and evaluation of different management options

Andi Mehmeti, Alessandra Scardigno, Dionysis Assimacopoulos, Mladen Todorovic, Luis S. Pereira

16:15 – 16:30

Expo 2015 Milan and Feeding Knowledge programme: the nexus between land, water, climate change, biodiversity, energy and food

security in the Mediterranean

Pandi Zdruli, Nicola Lamaddalena, Mladen Todorović, Alessandra Scardigno, Jenny Calabrese, Gaetano Ladisa, Vincenzo Verrastro

16:30 – 17:00 Coffee Break

17:00 – 18:00 Great Hall, Closing Ceremony

Saturday, 14 September, 2013, 8:30 – 19:00 Study and Turistic tour (Capitanata irrigation Consortium, Castel del Monte, Trani)