News 18/09/2025
The French Water Partnership, with the support of CARI, Agropolis International, EAT and AIRMF, is organising the national workshop “Agriculture, Water and Territories: coping with drought together” on Friday 3 October 2025 at Agropolis International in Montpellier.
To take part in this workshop, register before 30 September by completing the online form. https://www.agropolis.fr/Agriculture-eau-et-territoires-faire-face-au-probleme-des-secheresses
Le Partenariat Français pour l’Eau (PFE), est la plateforme de référence des acteurs français de l’eau publics, privés et associatifs, actifs à l’international. Il porte depuis plus de 15 ans un plaidoyer au niveau international pour améliorer la prise en compte des enjeux liés à l’eau dans les différentes actions et politiques et favorise les échanges entre les savoir-faire français et ceux des autres pays.
This workshop is being organised to encourage exchanges between interested members of the PFE and, in particular, its ESASA working group (Water, Soil, Agroecology and Food Security), scientists, professional agricultural managers, water and agricultural water managers, local authorities and administrations, students, international cooperation players, etc.
This one-day workshop will be structured around a presentation of the problem, based on a ‘drought and resilience’ version of the PFE’s framework message on the ESASA theme, several concrete examples showing the importance of this problem for the areas along the French Mediterranean coast and the responses that can be provided, and the points of view expressed by the members of the PFE’s ESASA WG and other workshop participants.
The aim of this workshop is to :
- Share observations from the field and the analyses of the organisations represented
- Highlight the impact of droughts and the actions taken to deal with them, as well as the feins and levers to be mobilised or initiated, to speed up the necessary agricultural transitions and provide better control of the regions and water management.
- Develop collective messages to be taken to influential forums (6th Désertif’actions Summit to be held from 25 to 28 March 2026 in Djerba, Tunisia, international water forums and conferences, COP, etc.).
Workshop programme
9h30 – Welcome, introduction to the issues and objectives of the workshop
10h20 – Pause café
10h40 – Three regional case studies of drought in Mediterranean France
12h30 – Lunch break
14h – Assessments of agriculture and territorial management/territorial water management
15h – Report from the two focus groups, discussion and conclusion of the workshop
How can I take part in the workshop?
Register before 30 September using the form https://www.agropolis.fr/Agriculture-eau-et-territoires-faire-face-au-probleme-des-secheresses
Venue: Agropolis international, 1000 Avenue Agropolis, 34090 Montpellier (France)
Schedule: Workshop starts at 9.30am
