This workshop is a joint initiative of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Nanjing Agricultural University and the UN-Water Decade Programme on Capacity Development (UNW-DPC), hosted by the UN University. The workshop’s main objective is to train participants in the practical applications of AquaCrop in order to improve their skills in strategic farm management practices toward increasing crop water productivity in rainfed and irrigated production systems. AquaCrop, a new crop model recently developed by FAO, focuses on simulating the attainable yield in response to water, which is the key driver for agricultural production and which is increasingly becoming the critical factor limiting crop production.  

dates: 15-19 June 2009  
location: Nanjing, China  
e-mail: aquacrop@fao.org  
www: http://www.fao.org/nr/water/docs/AquaCropWorkshopChina.pdf