Announcements

• The Soil and Water Management and Crop Nutrition (SWMCN) Section has been working with FAO on the development of FAO’s AquaCrop field-crop model for predicting yield response to water. It is part of the effort to revise the FAO’s published document in 1979 on "Yield Response to Water", (FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper No. 33). The outcome of this collaboration is a more user-friendly model and it can be used by scientists and land managers in Member States to manage scarce water for crop production under both rainfed and irrigated conditions. Refer to FAO Website for more information: http://www.fao.org/NR/dep/nrlw/nrlw_en.htm