Programme title

Institution/organization

Land and water management: Irrigated agriculture

Contact person
Professor Atef Hamdy - Director of Research

Contact person's address
Istituto Agronomico Mediterraneo
Via Ceglie 9. 70010 Valenzano (Bari). Italy

Contact person's Telephone/Fax
Tel +39-80-4606221 Fax +39-80-4606206

Contact person's E-mail
[email protected]

Type of programme: Course

Certificate: Diploma

Frequency of programme
Annual

Programme's main focus
Enhancement of the capabilities of water professionals.

Programme prospectus
The objective of the course is to prepare graduate agronomists, agricultural and civil (water resources) engineers for professional careers in land and water management with a particular emphasis on irrigated agriculture. Within this framework, further goals are to offer these subjects, which are not at all and/or insufficiently treated during graduate studies, to instil in students an awareness of the social and environmental implications of technology and management practice and to motivate them to make worthwhile contributions to the profession and to society.

The course programme was reorganized in 1998/99 to promote the integrated management of land and water resources while applying modern technologies and computer facilities. The course is financed by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and CIHEAM. Each year approximately 25 candidates are enrolled in the course from nine to twelve Mediterranean countries and other regions of the world. Interest in the course is high. The number of applicants is twice the number of places. Therefore the number of participants are limited for reasons of logistics and finances.

Target group
Junior professionals

Programme www
http://www.iamb.it/training/irrseng.html

Dates/duration
Nine months, October-July

Language
English, French

Partners
National Water Research Center, Cairo, Egypt; FAO, Rome, Italy; IAV Hassan II, Agadir, Morocco; INRAT, IRESA, Tunisia; University of Bari, Italy; University of Bologna, Italy; ICARDA, Syria; ILRI, Faculty of Agriculture, Wageningen, The Netherlands; University of Davis, USA; Fordham University, New York, USA; Cukurova University, Adana, Turkey National Research Council, Zaragoza, Spain; INRA, Thiverval-Grignon, France; CEMAGREF, France; CIHEAM, Montpellier, France; Technical University, Lisbon, Portugal.

Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes/Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Bari

Acronym
CIHEAM/IAMB

Country
Italy

Address
Istituto Agronomico Mediterraneo
Via Ceglie 9
70010 Valenzano (Bari)
Italy

Tel +39-080-4606201

Fax +39-080-4606206

E-mail
[email protected]

Institute/organization www
http://www.iamb.it/

Brief description of institution/organization
The Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari (IAMB) is one of the four Institutes that make up the Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes (CIHEAM), founded in 1962 as an inter-governmental organization under the auspices of the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development).

The CIHEAM mandate is to be an instrument of cooperation between the countries of the Mediterranean in the areas of postgraduate agricultural education and the promotion of agricultural research through cooperative networks.

Currently, CIHEAM comprises 13 member countries: Albania, Algeria, Egypt, France, Greece, Italy, Lebanon, Malta, Morocco, Portugal, Spain, Tunisia and Turkey.

Over four decades of activity, CIHEAM has become recognized for excellence in the field of education and research in agriculture, water-resource management, agri-food industry and the environment, working in partnership with the specialist national institutions as well as in cooperation with the international organizations active in the region (e.g. ICARDA, FAO, OADA, etc.).