SLU at the World Water Week

Water for food in a changing climate: Pathways to adaptation and mitigation

The session highlights tensions between co-benefits and trade-offs in agricultural water management innovation. We explore both synergy and contradiction in efforts for mitigation and adaptation through water interventions in rice systems, water-soil management, renewable energy, and agroforestry, demonstrating varied incentives, responsibilities and burdens for different stakeholders, regions and sectors. 

Time: 24 August, 17.00-19.00

SLU researcher Örjan Berglund talked about Soil/water management, peat bogs case in Sweden.

Cool forests: benefits of forests for water & agriculture

This session will focus on the benefits of forests for agriculture through forest-water-climate linkages, highlighting innovative tools and examples from around the globe, shifting views on the links between forests and agriculture through unrecognized and undervalued ecosystem services.

Time: 26 August, 11.00-12.30

In PART 2: Forests for agriculture in action, Dr. Aida Bargues -Tobella  – Researcher, AGROTECNIO-CERCA Center, Spain; and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), will talk about Beyond cool forests: How trees on farms can improve water and food security

Go to the World Water Week website to register for free participation online.