The symposium aims to identify best management practices that will harmonize the sustainable use of water for agricultural production and livelihoods with well-functioning ecosystems.

Some of the topics to be included in this symposium are as follows:
• irrigation efficiency and associated economics
• irrigation for poverty alleviation and food security improvement
• water management in the irrigation sector
• water valuation in the irrigation sector, cost coverage, tariff system and rate level: opportunities and constraints
• water scarcity and water harvesting
• virtual water and food security
• policy options for saving water in irrigation
• integrated modelling approaches
• impacts of climate change on hydrological regimes and water resources
• gender issues in water and land management.