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New paper from the Italian Living Lab

A new paper was published by colleagues at University of Florence, on the Participatory Modeling of Small Agricultural Reservoirs in the Orcia Watershed. The paper describes the process of stakeholders’ involvement, crucial to understand the challenges and to co-produce possible solutions. The outputs of two workshops carried out in the Orcia watershed, together with desktop […]

Joint Masterclass on Non-Conventional Water (NCW) use in the Mediterranean

AG-WaMED Masterclass Third edition: Science and Practice of Non-Conventional Water (NCW) use in the Mediterranean Joint Masterclass of AG-WaMED, AGREEMed and AGREEMAR PRIMA projects 20.03.2025 – 9.15 Italian Time Registration link: https://forms.gle/JYYnsVF3tmWaVdse9 The third edition of the AG-WaMED Masterclass will be organized in partnership with AGREEMed (Innovative Aquifers Governance for Resilient Water Management and Sustainable […]

WMO State of Global Water Resources Report presentation

We are delighted to invite you to the presentation of the report on the State of Global Water Resources by the World Meteorological Organization: https://wmo.int/publication-series/state-of-global-water-resources-2023 that will be held on March 17th, 2025, 11:00 – 12:30 | Room B, Scuola di Agraria, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Piazzale delle Cascine, 18, Firenze and online.  The registration link is: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfLCcDI6algfTPK1rhb_05UVbZpQ4RL3IO1SQkaZpEC0a6iLA/viewform The report will […]

PRIMA Projects presented at the third Arab Land Conference

On February 20th, 2025, AG-WaMED project was presented together with AGREEMed and AGREEMAR. This group of PRIMA Partnership – funded project aims at establishing a long-term platform for coordinating Mediterranean research on non-conventional water resources. Prof Elena Bresci from Università degli Studi di Firenze and PI of AG-WaMED presented a talk on “Integrated Land and […]

AG-WaMED Italian Living Lab listed in the Atlas of Water4ALL

Huge news for AG-WaMED! Our Italian Living Lab in Val D’Orcia is now listed within the Atlas of Water-oriented Living Labs of Water4All. The area is mainly characterized by non-irrigated agriculture but, in the last decades, farmers resorted to emergency irrigation during summer. Only few direct abstraction points from Orcia river are present in the […]

High-resolution estimates of water availability for the Iberian Peninsula

Bolivar Paredes-Beltran, Alvaro Sordo-Ward, Francisco Martin-Carrasco, and Luis Garrote at UPM published a new paper in the framework of AG-WaMED, “High-resolution estimates of water availability for the Iberian Peninsula under climate scenarios“. The research aims to assess future potential water availability for the Iberian Peninsula in different climate scenarios, employing cutting-edge water resource modelling techniques […]

Dr. Zaineb Ali completed her Ph.D.

AG-WaMED Ph.D. student Zaineb Ali defended her PhD thesis on April 19th, 2024 which was undertaken partly in the framework of the project, with a thesis titled: “Modeling of floods in Tunisian arid zones: Case Study of the Bayech Basin (Southwestern Tunisia)“ Dr. Ali shared these words about her experience in the project “Engaging in […]

AG-WaMED presented at the EGU conference in Wien

The AG-WaMED project was presented with several contributions at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly in Wien, from the 14 to the 19 of April, 2024. The EGU24 General Assembly welcomed 20,979 registered attendees, of which 18,388 made their way to Vienna from 116 countries and 2,591 joined online from 109 countries. It was […]

Leveraging (non conventional) Water for Peace

For the World Water Day 2024, titled “Leveraging Water for Peace” the AG-WaMED project in collaboration with the International Rainwater Harvesting Alliance (IRHA), is organizing the webinar “Leveraging (non-conventional) Water for Peace”. The event will take place on Thursday 21st March 2024, from 13:00 – 14:30 CET, with international speakers. Please register at this link. […]

AG-WaMED presented at the PRIMA Project Day 2023

The AG-WaMED project is present at the PRIMA Project Day 2023 in Barcelona, with our project coordinator, Prof. Elena Bresci (University of Florence). The Event was the occasion of networking and exchange experiences with our PRIMA Projects in the Mediterranean Area.

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