Innovation Issues in Water, Agriculture and Food

In a worldwide context of ever-growing competition for water and land, climate change, droughts and man-made water scarcity, and less-participatory water governance, agriculture faces the great challenge of producing enough food for a continually increasing population. In this line, this book provid...

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Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2019
Subjects:	Biology, life sciences actual evapotranspiration agricultural intensification agriculture Andalusia aridity effects basal crop coefficients beneficial water use biomass Black soil calibration Corn crop coefficient curves crop growth crop transpiration crop water requirements crop water use and evapotranspiration crop yield cut-off time decision support systems (DSS) deficit irrigation Density coefficient design of irrigation systems direct forcing DPSIR dried on the vine drip and basin irrigation drip irrigation drought classes droughts dry drainage system Dual crop coefficients economic and environmental issues eddy covariance evaporation evaporative fraction evapotranspiration Evapotranspiration Fiesta grapes fuzzy cognitive maps groundwater hydrant risk indicator hysteresis loops impact inflow rates Irrigation irrigation district irrigation scheduling irrigation systems design irrigation water governance Kcb from ground cover latent heat flux leaf area index local advection log-linear modeling Lycopersicon esculentum Mill. maize yield measures new technologies nitrogen North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) olive orchard on-demand operation organizational analysis Pampa biome Participatory Irrigation Management participatory management persistence perturbation policies policy-making precise land levelling pressures pressurized irrigation systems reference evapotranspiration reform regulated deficit irrigation relative pressure exceedance remote sensing root growth Row crops salinity satellite observations semi-arid region Sensitive Zones SIMDualKc model simulation models smartphone application soil evaporation soil moisture soil nutrient soil temperature soil water balance soil water storage depletion Spain spatial variability stakeholder engagement Standardized Precipitation and Evapotranspiration Index (SPEI) Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) supply-demand balance model surface irrigation modelling surface water pollution sustained deficit irrigation Tagus River Basin Transfer unsteady flow validation Vulnerable Zones water and land management water and salt balance water balance water users association water users' organization water-agriculture-food nexus water-energy-food nexus wheat
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