Drip Irrigation Themes for Drylands, Deserts and Desertification 2014
· The roles of drip irrigation in the alleviation of water and food crises
· The economics of drip irrigation
· Sub-surface drip irrigation
· Low pressure drip irrigation
· Drip irrigation for small farmers in developing countries
· Innovative approaches to drip irrigation
· Chemigation, Fertigation
· Drip irrigation with saline water
· Drip irrigation with recycled water
· Drip irrigation of rice
· Drip irrigation of field crops
· Drip irrigation of horticultural crops
· Landscaping with drip irrigation
· Environmental aspects of drip irrigation
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Dr. Naftali Lazarovitch is a professor and researcher at the Wyler Department for Dryland Agriculture, French Associates Institute for Agriculture and Biotechnology of Drylands, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He received his PhD in 2006 from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. His main research interests are creating a better understanding of water flow and solute transport in the soil-plant-atmosphere system, increasing agricultural water use efficiency using optimal irrigation and fertigation scheduling and modeling (numerical and analytical), measurements and interpretation of water flow and solute transport in the root and vadose zone. His work has been published in more than thirty journal articles.
Dr. Dov Pasternak is a Professor Emeritus from the Ben Gurion University of the Negev.
In 1964 he was among the first pioneers who introduced the drip irrigation system to the Arava valley of Israel. Over a period of 30 years he developed the basis for irrigation with saline water using drip irrigation.
In 1998 he started the development of the low pressure drip irrigation system for small African farmers called the African Market Garden and during a period of 10 years he lead the dissemination of this system in dry West Africa countries.
Prof. Pasternak working at ICRISAT-Niger developed new production systems and new crops for the semi arid regions of Africa. Author of 66 articles in peer reviewed journals and book chapters.
Currently he is serving as an international adviser on agricultural development of dry regions.