Professor Chandra Madramootoo of McGill University has been elected by member countries of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), to serve as Chair of the Technical Advisory Committee of the Global Framework on Water Scarcity in Agriculture (WASAG). He will also serve as an ex-officio member of the WASAG Steering Committee. WASAG is responsible for development of policies, strategies and programmes, that improve the capacity of FAO member countries to adapt systems required for reducing the impacts of water scarcity within a changing climate. Water scarcity affects hundreds of millions of smallholder farmers and inhabitants in Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa, the middle-east, Central Asia, and South Asia.

Professors Chandra Madramootoo and Michael Ngadi participated in the 7th Conference of the Pan African Society for Agricultural Engineering, October 22-24, 2025 in Fes, Morocco. Professor Madramootoo gave a keynote address on Water Management for Sustainable and Resilient Agriculture in Africa.