One Water for Food Security in the MENA Region by Prof. Akiça Bahri

Dear all,

You are cordially invited to attend thethird session of the AURORA Webinar Series under the title “One Water for Food Security in the MENA Region” with the Former Minister of Agriculture, Water Resources and Fisheries in Tunisia, Prof. Akiça Bahri on November 10 at 5 PM CET.  We encourage you to register now, so you don’t miss it:  

 https://uni-kassel.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArc-ugqjorGNyhtelPsSUqyFBvrUsc9s0b

Speaker’s short biography:

Akiça Bahri served as Minister of Agriculture, Water Resources and Fisheries and as ‎Secretary of State in charge of Water Resources in Tunisia. Prior to this, she was a Professor ‎at the National Agricultural Institute of Tunisia, and earlier she worked as Coordinator of the ‎African Water Facility (AWF) at the African Development Bank; as Director for Africa at the ‎International Water Management Institute (IWMI), based in Accra, Ghana; and as Director ‎of Research at the National Research Institute for Agricultural Engineering, Water and ‎Forestry in Tunisia (INRGREF).‎

She has worked in water research in the fields of water resources management and ‎agricultural use of marginal waters and biosolids. She has authored over 100 research and ‎policy papers and reports. She has received international honors. ‎

She holds an Agricultural Engineer degree and a Doctor-Engineer degree from the National ‎Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse, France, and a Ph.D. from Lund University, Sweden.‎