Webinar: Working with smallholders and women farmers
This webinar is the first in a series titled ‘Watering the Margins’, organized by IHE Delft-led Water Productivity Improvement in Practice Knowledge and Action Network project . The webinar series engages with questions of equity and justice in the generation and use of earth observation data in agriculture water management projects.
This webinar discusses inclusive approaches to working with women farmers, smallholders and sharecroppers. It will also discuss the challenges to making hydro-agroecological data useful to marginal social groups, and what lessons we can draw from such experiences.
Learn and collaborate for an inclusive farming future!
Webinar Agenda
9:30 - 9:35: Opening remarks and introduction
9:35 - 10:05: Talk by Seema Kulkarni
10:05 - 10:20: Talk by Bancy Mati
10:20 - 10:35: Talk by Marloes Mul
10:35 - 11:00: Moderated Q&A
11:00 - 12:00: WATERPIP KAN project retaled discussions
The WaterPIP Knowledge and Action Network project is supported by the Water and Development Partnership Programme (WDPP) under the programmatic cooperation between the Directorate-General for International Cooperation (DGIS) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands and IHE Delft.
Speakers include
Seema Kulkarni
Seema Kulkarni is one of the founding members of the Society for Promoting Participative Eco-System Management, Pune (SOPPECOM). She is the National Facilitation Team member of Mahila Kisan Adhikar Manch (MAKAAM) or Forum for Women Farmers Rights (MAKAAM). She is also a core member of the Feminist Policy Collective.
Bancy Mbura Mati
Professor Bancy Mati is an expert in land and water management, with a special interest in irrigation. She holds a PhD degree in Agricultural Engineering, Food Production and Rural Land Use, from Cranfield University of UK. Currently, she is the Project Lead at AIAP for the WaterPIP-KAN project, where she leads the methodology development and the subsequent identification of vulnerable and marginalized groups (VMGs), for project engagement in Kenya.
Marloes Mul
Marloes Mul is an Associate Professor in Water Resources Management at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education in the Netherlands, where she currently leads the Water Accounting and Water Productivity team. The team develops different applications from irrigation scheme to river basin level using remote sensing data. Before joining IHE Delft, Marloes was based in the West Africa Office of IWMI in Accra, Ghana.
The webinar will be moderated by Amitangshu Acharya, IHE Delft lecturer in Water Governance.
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