Adaptation Metrics and Techniques Cluster (AMT)

The importance of water resource management and agriculture development in alleviating the challenges of food security in Africa and the world, do not need to be demonstrated especially when considering the impacts of climate change. Addressing agriculture and water climate related issues cannot be done without adaptation and monitoring and evaluating tools for their accuracy and effectiveness.

Based on this framework, the University Mohammed VI Polytechnic hosted, on October 6-7, 2017, a conference on “Adaptation Metrics for Agriculture and Water” as a first one in the series1..

• to gather scientists around the issue of adaptation metrics and monitoring. Information about the main scientific advances will be available online. This tool will allow to have a referential platform bringing together finance institutions, research scientists and project holders. The university wishes, in the continuity of COP22 recommendation, to maintain a sectoral approach and to enrich it with other sensitive sectors that ought to drive the African development.
• to run an annual conference on the topic, and organize related tutorials. The conference will be a must-see event in order to follow up the research advance for adaptation metrics and monitoring in different sectors mainly Water..