Lectures

Calculating scheme water requirements with a water balance

The Chinese philosopher Guan Zhong (720-645 BC) famously said ‘the best return for one year is to grow grains, the best return for ten years is to grow trees, the best return for a lifetime is to educate people’. This potential lifetime impact makes teaching fun and special.

I teach aspects of agricultural water management to bachelor and master students International Land and Water Management. The main topics are:

crop water requirements and irrigation
water balance
yield-evapotranspiration relations
drainage and conjunctive water use
design of drip and sprinkler irrigation systems
reorientations in agricultural water management

Below follows a selection of my research lectures.

4 options for environmental-sound subsidies in rainfed & irrigated agriculture in Repurposing Subsidies webinar, co-organised by IWMI, Wageningen University, World Bank

Wasser und Wald, immer noch ein ideales Paar? (Forest and water, still an ideal couple?) in Visioonwald Conference, Hochschule Geisenheim.

Agricultural water management in a water-scarce world in Earth Sciences Symposium, Utrecht University

Reorienting Agricultural Water Management in Water Research Seminar, Wageningen University

Water in Agriculture-Forest Frontiers in SESAM Agro-forestry Seminar

Tidal river management in Bangladesh on World Water Day, University of Hohenheim