More Crop Per Drop

More Crop Per Drop

Raising water use efficiency

29 November 2012  |  London, UK

Water is a key enabler to produce more food and biomass required for the world's increasing population. Accordingly, the focus of this event is on more efficient use of water. Knowing that agriculture uses less than 10% of the world’s total rainfall is not much help to populations in water stressed areas that cannot grow sufficient food or move to more productive zones.

Improving water productivity is therefore vital and has three main components: agronomic and plant science; water storage and transmission; and, governance relating to water access and competing uses. This meeting addresses agronomic and plant science particularly, whilst also examining the scale of the problem and potential impact of climate change; the issues for policy formation; and, the priorities for allocation of time and resources.

Timely solutions are necessary and can be found, but only by focussing on key deliverables. This meeting is intended to be the first in a series of events exploring solutions for raising water use efficiency and delivering more crop per drop.

Who should attend:

• Policy managers
• Academics in the field
• R&D managers
• Marketing and business development managers
• Investment decision makers
• Media

As well as a full program of lectures, presented by leading experts, there will also be a poster competition. To make a submission please send a 250 word abstract entitled “More Crop per Drop - poster abstract”, by 26th October 2012 to conferences@soci.org. All submissions will be acknowledged.

For full details and to register please see the website below.