Workshop Agenda

Unpacking Water Management Complexity in the Global South
Friday, 27 October 2023

07:55 Opening Statement - Djiby Thiam, Ariel Dinar, and Christina Babbitt

Irrigated Agriculture

08:00 Irrigation-as-a-Service for Smallholder Farms - Nicholas Brozovic, Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

Discussant: Henning Bjornlund 
Q&A: 10 minutes

08:30 Small-Scale Irrigation Potential in Niger and Burkina Faso - Getaw Tadesse, Akademiya2063, Senegal and Rwanda 

Discussant: Nicholas Brozovic
Q&A: 10 minutes 

09:00 Combining Social Institutions and Technological Solutions for Sustained Change in Water User Behaviour within Small-scale Irrigation in sub-Saharan Africa - Henning Bjornlund, University of South Australia, Australia

Discussant: Getaw Tadesse
Q&A: 10 minutes

09:30 Coffee Break

Urban and Mining Sectors

09:45 Quality of Tap Water and Demand for Bottled Water in Tunis - Slim Zekri, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman

Discussant: Raymond Boadi Frempong
Q&A: 10 minutes

10:15 Assessing the Efficiency of Residential Water Demand: The Role of Information - María García-Valiñas, University of Oviedo, Spain

Discussant: Slim Zekri
Q&A: 10 minutes

10:45 Mineral Extraction and Water Security - Raymond Boadi Frempong, University of Bayreuth, Germany

Discussant: María García-Valiñas
Q&A: 10 minutes

11:15 Lunch

Climate Change Induced Water Scarcity Risks

12:00 Hydro-Economic Modelling of Water Scarcity and Quality in the South African Region of the Limpopo River Basin - Daiju Narita, The University of Tokyo, Japan

Discussant: Chieko Umetsu
Q&A: 10 minutes

12:30 Do Zambian Farmers Manage Climate Risks? - Chieko Umetsu, Kyoto University, Japan

Discussant: Johannes Sauer
Q&A: 10 minutes

13:00 Measuring the Resilience of Farms to Water Scarcity - Johannes Sauer, Technical University of Munich, Germany

Discussant: Daju Narita
Q&A: 10 minutes

13:30 Coffee Break

Innovations and Policy Interventions

13:45 Innovation and Water Productivity: Empirical Evidence from Water-Related Patents - Linus Nyiwul, Gettysburg College, USA

Discussant: Chérifa Abdelbaki
Q&A: 10 minutes

14:15 Wastewater Reuse for Agriculture as an Adaptation Measure to Water Scarcity and Climate Change: Algerian Experience - Chérifa Abdelbaki, Pan African University, Algeria 

Discussant: Abdelmohssin El Mokaddem
Q&A: 10 minutes

14:45 Water Pricing and Water Markets: Principles, Practices and Proposals - Sarah Wheeler, University of Adelaide, Australia

Discussant: Linus Nyiwul
Q&A: 10 minutes

15:15 Dynamic Public Investment Feedback Policies for Water Scarcity Control in Dry and Semi-Arid Economies - Abdelmohssin El Mokaddem, Mohammed VI Polytechnic
University, Morocco 

Discussant: Sarah Wheeler
Q&A: 10 minutes

15:45 Closing Remarks