‘Worldwide challenges for agricultural water management in river deltas, and their consequences for the environment, food security, and society’.
Coastal river deltas are unique landscapes. Densely populated, they tend to be hotspots of economic activity, including food production. They also experience tremendous environmental pressures, related to climate change, human interventions and other changes. People’s livelihoods in many of these deltas are at risk due to a complex interplay of human and natural processes. The Prins Claus Chair 2018-2020, Veena Srinivasan, and Future Food Utrecht invite you to join us in this online seminar next 8 December 2020. The meeting will address issues relating to climate change, intensive food production and other challenges in especially Asian and African river deltas. Several speakers will present their work on how farmers and communities cope with these challenges and respond to government interventions. The discussion on Asian and African deltas will be followed by a reflection by Martin Wassen on the parallels with the Dutch situation.
The Prins Claus Chair 2018-2020, Veena Srinivasan, and Future Food Utrecht invite you to join us in this online seminar next 8 December 2020. The meeting will address issues relating to climate change, intensive food production and other challenges in especially Asian and African river deltas. Several speakers will present their work on how farmers and communities cope with these challenges and respond to government interventions. The discussion on Asian and African deltas will be followed by a reflection by Martin Wassen on the parallels with the Dutch situation.
Program
11. 00 AM| Welkom & Introduction to the topic by the chairs of the seminar. Prof. dr. Veena Srinivasan, Prins Claus Chair 2018-2020 & Dr. Guus van Westen, Assistant professor, International Development Studies- Utrecht University
11.10 AM | Presentations Cases studies India, Bangladesh & Mozambique
- ‘Grassroots initiatives and government responses to secure agricultural water in a drying delta: the case of tank revival in the Cauvery’: Prof. dr. Veena Srinivasan, Director, Centre for Social and Environmental Innovation, Atree, Dr Andres Verzijl, Researcher, International Development Studies, Utrecht University.
- ‘Tidal River Management in Bangladesh’: Dr Frank van Laerhoven, Associate professor Environmental Governance - Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development –Utrecht University
- ‘Parallel processes of big D development and little d development in the Beira river delta, Mozambique’: Dr Ir. Janwillem Liebrand, Assistant Professor Social Urban Transitions, Human Geography and Spatial Planning – Utrecht University
11.55 AM | Reflection on the parallels with the Netherlands situation: Prof. dr. Martin Wassen, Environmental Sciences, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development – Utrecht University
12.05 PM| Q&A and Discussion Panel & Public
12.30 PM| End
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