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During the International Symposium entitled Urban and peri urban Horticulture in the century of cities taking place on 6-9 December 2010 at the Ngor Diarama complex in Dakar, FAO NRLW will organize a seminar entitled “Water Management for Urban and Peri Urban Horticulture”.

The seminar will take place on December 7th (Casamance Room) and it will aim at deepening the understanding on how to improve water management for Urban and Periurban Horticulture (UPH) with the first objective that local authorities and water managers can help urban horticulturalists in having access to safe water for their production and secondly that vegetable producers can cope with the decreasing quantity and quality of water resources and still improve their crop productivity.

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The aim of the Conference is to bring together leading world experts to discuss approaches for the sound management of transboundary aquifers, in both developed and developing countries. In particular, the conference will stress the accent on how principles of international law and good governance can contribute to the sustainable management of these systems.

During the International Conference on Transboundary Aquifers, taking place on 6-8 December 2010 at the UNESCO HQ in Paris, FAO, in collaboration with Partners will present the project Groundwater governance - A Global Framework for Country Action. The presentation will take place on December 8th, during the side event Transboundary Aquifer Management Projects. (Room VI -9-12:30)