2023 Water for Food Global Conference
In spring 2023, DWFI hosted a conference in Lincoln, Nebraska, featuring leaders in a variety of topics focused on advancing water and food security, in engaging and interactive sessions.
2021 Water for Food Global Forum
The Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute held the “Water for Food Global Forum,” a virtual series of events over a one-month period in October 2021 that convened leading international experts, growers and organizations to focus on achieving global water and food security.
2019 Conference
The Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute at the University of Nebraska (DWFI) hosted the 2019 Water for Food Global Conference, April 29-30, at Nebraska Innovation Campus in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. We explored the cutting-edge work being done to address one of the most urgent global issues of our time – ensuring we have enough nutritious food and clean water to sustainably support nearly 10 billion people in the next 30 years.
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2018 Water for Food International Form
The Water for Food International Forum was produced by the Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute at the University of Nebraska and the World Bank, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Agency for International Development, Jan. 29-30, 2018, in Washington, D.C., USA.
2017 Conference
The 2017 Water for Food Global Conference was held April 10-12 at Nebraska Innovation Campus in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. The three-day event brought together global leaders in water for food and offered a range of presentations to the 400 participants, representing academic researchers, NGO and business leaders and farmers. Presentations and discussions focused on major aspects of the conference theme: “Water for Food Security: From Local Lessons to Global Impacts.” More than 100 speakers and panelists shared case studies and perspectives on pressing global water and food security challenges, including innovations in sustainable irrigation in Africa, governance of major river basins and groundwater, new technologies to improve water use and more.
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2016 Conference
The seventh conference, “Catalytic Collaborations: Building Public-Private Partnerships for Water and Food Security,” focused on the powerful innovations that can result from partnerships. From the very beginning, the Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute at the University of Nebraska has worked to develop vital partnerships across all sectors to develop solutions and avoid duplication of existing efforts.
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2014 Conference
The 2014 conference focused on ways to effectively manage and use data-gathering technology to conserve water and improve agricultural production for farming systems at local and global scales. For this sixth annual conference — the first in a venue outside of Nebraska — a priority was to focus more sharply on the water and food issues affecting smallholder farmers and to increase the participation of people and organizations who work most closely on smallholder questions.
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2013 Conference
The 2013 Conference focused on climate variability and change and what can be done to adapt to climate extremes and changing conditions. From the keynote speeches on the impacts of climate change to the discussions of resilience and coping with hotter and drier agriculture, the message was clear: climate change is real and the scientific evidence is compelling. We urgently need to find better ways of mitigating and adapting to floods, droughts and the effects of climate extremes.
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2012 Conference
Hosted by the Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Institute (DWFI) at the University of Nebraska (NU) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the 2012 global conference – “Blue Water, Green Water and the Future of Agriculture” – brought together about 500 experts from the world’s universities, private sector, governments and nongovernmental organizations to discuss issues and propose solutions to growing more food with less water. Presentations and panel discussions offered innovative ideas and research and provided a forum to discuss varying viewpoints on solving the water for food challenge.
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2011 Conference
Hosted by the Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Institute at the University of Nebraska (NU) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the 2011 conference – Paths to Solutions – brought together more than 450 experts from universities, the private sector, governments and nongovernmental organizations around the world to discuss potential solutions for managing and using our water resources to feed an increasingly hungry and thirsty world.
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2010 Conference
Hosted by the University of Nebraska with the support of the Robert B. Daugherty Charitable Foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Monsanto Company, the conference brought together more than 300 scientists and decision- makers from universities, the private sector, governments and nongovernmental organizations around the world to discuss the challenge of growing more food using less water.
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2009 Conference
In May 2009 the University of Nebraska and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation hosted the Future of Water for Food conference to bring together experts from around the world to discuss this challenge and potential paths to solutions.
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