General Information
Since 1962 Alterra-ILRI organizes international (post-graduate) short training courses for mid-career professionals in land and water management. The short courses are organized in Wageningen, The Netherlands. Participants can benefit from direct interaction with a wide range of experts with hands-on experience. In addition regional tailor-made courses and “refresher courses” are organized to address specific topics in land and water management. Evaluations of Alterra-ILRI's training courses by the participants are consistently high.

Target Group
Alterra-ILRI Courses are intended for professionals working for government, for NGO's and for private consultants with the goal to improve the living conditions in rural areas, and for researchers who wish to develop and disseminate appropriate solutions for the water management problems they face. Participants come from all over the world.

Courses 2011
For 2011, two renewed modules are developed for the Land and Water Courses: 

• Increasing Water Productivity in Water Scarce Areas
  (Start Course: 6 November 2011, 3 weeks duration)
  
  This course module is aimed at supporting planners, decision makers and executives in water and agriculture in reconciling land and water management in view of sustainable food production under water-scarce conditions. The focus will be on semi-arid and arid areas.
  This module is eligible for Nuffic NFP fellowships. Fellowships can be applied for through a website tool (Scholarship Online, SOL), from 1 February 2011 onwards. Deadline for application is May 2011. Please check Fellowships for the procedure.
   

• Save Water - Save Harvest - Save Life: Water for Food and Ecosystems
  (Start Course: 5 June 2011, 3 weeks duration)
  
  This course module aims at the principles and methods to manage and prioritize scarce water resources for food production and sustainable ecosystems. The application procedure for Nuffic NFP fellowships for this module is closed. However there are other fellowship programmes (see for example www.grantfinder.nl).

Contact
For more information please contact Claire Jacobs