Opening address and welcoming remarks

• Opening address
  • Takahiro Inoue
• Welcome address
  • Katsuyuki Nagayama

Keynote address

• Global water resources assessment and future projections
  • Katumi Musiake,Taikan Oki,Yasushi Agata,Shinjiro Kanae
• Meeting the water needs for food and environmental security
  • David Molden
• Evolution and future directions of water use in agriculture
  • Yoshihiro Kaida

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Session 1. Increasing Drought Resistance and Water Stress Tolerance through Ecological and Genetic Approaches

• Reducing water stress through ecological approaches and crop characteristics
  • Shinobu Inanaga, Abdelbagi M. Ali and Mohamed E. K. Ali
• Development of drought-resistant and water-stress tolerant crops through traditional breeding
  • Rodomiro Ortiz, I.J. Ekanayake, V. Mahalakshmi, A. Kamara,A. Menkir, S.N. Nigam, B.B. Singh and N.P. Saxena
• Development of drought-resistant and water stress-tolerant crops through biotechnology
  • Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki, Mie Kasuga, Qiang liu, Kazuo Nakashima, Yoh Sakuma,Hiroshi Abe, Zabta K. Shinwari, Motoaki Seki and Kazuo Shinozaki

Session 2. Agronomic Approaches for Improved Crop Water Use

• Soil water availability and water use efficiency
  • Rony Wallach
• Technologies for improved soil water use
  • Shuichi Hasegawa
• New water-saving production technologies: Advances in trickle irrigation
  • Peter J. Thorburn, Freeman J. Cook and Keith L. Bristow

Session 3. Transforming Agricultural Production in Water-Stressed Areas of Developing Regions

• Improving water availability and use in rainfed systems
  • Osamu Ito, Chikara Ogura and John S. Caldwell
• Potential for cross-regional interaction in research for improved water management in semi-arid and semi-humid rainfed cropping systems in Asia and Africa
  • John S. Caldwell, H. Kanno, M. Doumbia, K. Ozawa, A. Berthé, T. Sakurai, K. Sasaki, A. Yoroté, S. Sukchan, C. Ogura, W. On-ok, Y. Yamamoto, C. Satravaha and P. Prapin
• Optimal water management -Case study of tank cascade system in Sri Lanka -
  • Yoshiyuki Shinogi
• Utilization of water for rainfed agricultural areas in Northeast Thailand
  • Chayasit Aneksamphant and Pichai Wichaidit
• Water management and crop production in semi-arid and arid environments
  • Ryuzo Nishimaki
• Crop production and management in semi-arid and arid environments
  • Ali A. Al-]aloud and Ghulam Hussain
• Rural development project integrated with forestry in the semi-arid area of Senegal
  • Yoshiaki Kano

An overall synthesis of the symposium

• • John S. Caldwell

Concluding remarks

• • David Molden