Lecture “Reducing of Negative Impact of Droughts on Crop Yield by using Natural Self-Restoration Process” has been Published at YouTube Print
Friday, 17 January 2014 12:20

caption17 Jan. 2014, Kyiv — UNENGO “МАМА-86” has uploaded to YouTube a lecture “Reducing of Negative Impact of Droughts on Crop Yield by using Natural Self-Restoration Process” in a framework of the online course “Integrated Water Resources Management (IWRM) under Conditions of Climate Change: Ukraine’s Experience.”

The lecture is presented by Mykhailo Zakharchenko, PhD, Head of the Laboratory, Ukrainian Scientific Research Institute of Ecological Problems.

The goal of the lecture is to review the process of deteriorating state of arable lands in Ukraine in a historical aspect and also ways of improving of soil resistance in the periods of drought.

The online course has been founded by the Global Water Partnership (GWP)-Ukraine under support of the GWP of Central and Eastern Europe in May 2013. It is aimed at advancing of the IWRM theory and practice under conditions of adapting to extraordinary natural phenomena in Ukraine and demonstration of achievements of Ukraine’s water sector professionals in order to spread their experience in Ukraine and abroad, first of all, to GWP colleagues in the regions of Central and Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia. That is why the course is presented in Russian with English subtitles.    

Previous four lectures of the module include an introductory lecture of GWP-Ukraine’s expert Andriy Demydenko “Specifics of Transition to the Integrated Water Management in post-Soviet Countries;” lecture of Dr. of Biology Serhiy Afanasyev, Institute of Hydrobiology of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine (NASU) “EU Water Framework Directive: Joint Principles and Methodology of the Environment Status’ Evaluation,” lecture of Professor Oleksandr Obodovskiy, Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University, “Hydromorphologic Evaluation of the River Water Objects” and a lecture of Dr. of Phisics and Mathematics Martk Zhelezniak, Institute of Mathematical Machines Problems of NASU, “Mathematic Modeling for Support of the Decisions in the Sphere of Water Resources Management.” (http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeJ1Ix5jTF2gnnTBGmMd5PEFjaw-9dj_F).  

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GWP was founded in 1996 and aimed at promotion of the integrated water resources management. GWP is the NGOs network consisting of 2800 partner organizations in 167 countries. GWP-Ukraine was founded in 2006 and is a member of the regional water partnership “GWP of Central and Eastern Europe.” UNENGO “MAMA-86” is one of the founders of the Partnership in Ukraine and executes representative and administrative functions of the GWP-Ukraine as of April 2012.

 
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