Food Security Center

Water Security and Climate Change Conference

Water Security and Climate Change Conference 

December 03-05, 2018 in Nairobi, Kenya

The WSCC 2018 at Kenyatta University took up the “bridge-building” aspect of WCSS 2017 and provided continuity in serving as a platform for discussions towards water secure societies. International researchers, professionals, practitioners, politicians, industry, NGOs and other thematically involved societal groups discussed new and innovative ideas within 14 thematic sessions:

  • The "Environmental" Angle of Water Security
  • Sustainable implementation of innovative wastewater treatment in developing countries
  • Community Participation in Water Resource Management
  • Groundwater - A valuable limited freshwater resource. A second mainstay for security supply?
  • Transboundary Water governance and cooperation
  • Reduction of impacts of waste on water quality by an appropriate waste management
  • Water Quality, Quantity, Modelling and Monitoring
  • Climate Change and Coastal Management
  • Capacity Development towards a Sustainable Africa
  • Food and Water Security: Adaptation strategies (organized by the FSC)
  • Food and Water Security: The Southern perspective (organized by the FSC)
  • Nature-based Solutions
  • Water Governance and Water Security
  • Water-Energy-Food- Security Nexus

Interactive, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary conference space was provided to meet the new dimensions and perspectives in the current discourse on water security and with special attention to SDGs dealing with “Zero Hunger and Food Security”, “Clean Water and Sanitation”, “Sustainable Cities and Communities”, and “Combating climate change and its impacts”.

Since the Food Security goes hand in hand with water security and especially in 2018 where many countries have been hit by drought periods with several months of duration, the Food Security Center was actively involved in co-organizing the WSCC Conference. The FSC was in particular represented during sessions “Food and Water Security: Adaptation strategies” and “Food and Water Security: The Southern perspective”, where consequences of climate change and jeopardized water security were summarized: No food security without water security. Water security is a prerequisite for food production in terms of quantity and quality.

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