The IRD team in India was present at the IRD LMI days in Marseille (France) on June 25 and 26, which focused on the theme “Water as a common good: towards an integrated vision and sustainable solutions”.
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These two days were organized around participative workshops, aiming to identify societal and environmental issues, and actions to be taken in response. Members of the Indo-French Cell for Water Science (CEFIRSE) led a workshop on the impact of global change on the water cycle. Colleagues from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) and the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) were also present.
Many synergies were mentioned by the various stakeholders involved in this theme in South and Southeast Asia. Discussions and workshops identified cross-cutting themes: spatial hydrology and associated transfers, sustainable food systems and agroecology, governance and the science-politics interface, securing water availability and resilience in the face of environmental and societal pressures, knowledge sharing on an interdisciplinary basis...
These workshops will contribute to the IRD's Indo-Pacific roadmap, currently being drawn up, and will support the cross-disciplinary reflection carried out by the “Water, a common good” cross-disciplinary group, which mirrors the “One Water - Water, a common good” Priority Research Programs and Equipment (PEPR) of the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research's 4th investment program for the future (PIA4).
