The Joint Technical Secretariat of the Joint Water-Agriculture Council of the League of Arab States is organizing on 26 October 2021, with support from ESCWA and FAO-RNE, the Third Meeting of High-Level Joint Water-Agriculture Technical Committee (HLJTC) and that will take place virtually on the sidelines of 2021 Cairo Water Week.
The HLJTC has adopted during the first meeting of the Joint Water-Agriculture Ministerial in October 2019 five priority areas for its work on agriculture and water (water allocation in agriculture, water productivity, efficient water usage, use of non-conventional water in agriculture, water-food- energy nexus).
As such, the objectives of the third HLJTC meeting are to review the action plan to implement the 2019 Cairo declaration; review the draft guidelines for sustainable allocation of water resources for agriculture; and discuss and identify the directions for the use of non-conventional water resources for agriculture in the Arab region.
The recommendations of the HLJTC will be presented in the Second Meeting of the Joint Water-Agriculture Ministerial Council that will take place in November 2021 to obtain the directions for action on these issues through issuance of resolutions from the council.
Amman, Jordan
