Irrigation systems ‘must be improved’

[webfact]

Irrigation systems ‘must be improved’
By PRATCH RUJIVANAROM 
THE NATION 
CHIANG MAI

 

 

CHIANG MAI: -- EXPERTS HAVE urged Thailand to develop its irrigation system to ensure food security for the world’s growing population and a precautionary cover against the impact of climate change.

 

More than 1,200 policy-makers, academics, and NGOs from 45 countries gathered in Chiang Mai yesterday for the opening of the second World Irrigation Forum (WIF2). During the event, all key speakers stressed the need to improve and expand irrigation systems to address food shortages and help fight poverty.

Bart Schultz, winner of the second World Irrigation and Drainage Prize and an emeritus professor at Unesco-IHE in the Netherlands, said in his forum speech that the world’s big challenge now was to feed its growing population in the future, while handling the effects of climate change.

 

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[bokningar]

I'm all for better irrigation systems,

But maybe a meeting finding a way to STOP the population from growing is needed 

[elgordo38]

7 hours ago, webfact said:

CHIANG MAI: -- EXPERTS HAVE urged Thailand to develop its irrigation system to ensure food security for the world’s growing population and a precautionary cover against the impact of climate change.

Will we now be the hub of or more than likely the worlds breadbasket?? I am beginning to now understand all these wild figures thrown around by TAT and other politicians here. Might and maybe are the words most bandied about here but very little shall be. Its when they start to talk funding that the whole deal crumbles. 

[bangon04]

and yet the next season of flooding will be a total surprise to the authorities, who will scramble to open and close sluices randomly. and then the next season of drought will be a total surprise to the authorities, who will scramble to open and close sluices randomly... all the time issuing "intentions" and "predictions" and forming committees to investigate the causes etc etc etc and unqualified but hiso government spokesmen will make up lots of reasons why it will be better next time.

[Grubster]

There is not even close to being a food shortage in the world.

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[surangw]

the bi-yearly announcement ,    (  once during rainy season, once during dry season)

[digibum]

Quickly looking at the headline I thought it said the immigration system needed improved.  Then I read it and was like, "Immigration, irrigation, pretty much the same thing in Thailand."