Knox Improving water management in agriculture

Irrigation and food production
Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-1-80146-275-4
Verlag: Burleigh Dodds
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 0 - No protection

E-Book, Englisch, Band 138, 400 Seiten

Reihe: Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science

Irrigated agriculture accounts for around 70% of global water use. However, an estimated 60% of irrigated cropland remains highly water-stressed, a problem intensified by the effects of climate change.

Improving water management in agriculture: Irrigation and food production considers ways of addressing this challenge. It reviews advances in monitoring and optimizing irrigation efficiency, ways of retaining and re-using water resources as well as how farmers can work collaboratively with other stakeholders to manage watersheds more sustainably.

The book highlights key areas where innovation is required to ensure that water use is optimised at farm and watershed scales. The book encourages farmers to reassess their current irrigation models and implement alternative practices which improve efficiency with a reduced environmental impact.

Zielgruppe

Researchers and scientists involved in water and irrigation science, agronomists, as well as government and private sector agencies responsible for agriculture and water resource management

Autoren/Hrsg.

Knox, Professor Jerry

Knox, Jerry W.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Knox, Professor Jerry

Amarasinghe, Dr Upali

Todorovic, Dr Mladen

Anderson, Professor Stephen

Ritzema, Dr Henk

Calera Belmonte, Professor Alfonso

Rodriguez-Diaz, Professor Juan

Arif Watto, Dr Muhammed

Jewitt, Dr Graham

Woodhouse, Emeritus Professor Philip

Moncaster, Dr Steve

Lankford, Professor Bruce

Wheeler, Professor Sarah

Chapman, Professor Pippa

Biswas, Dr Tapas

Wu, Dr Ray-Shyan

Melo, Dr Oscar

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Ackerbaukunde, Pflanzenbau
• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Nachhaltige Landwirtschaft
• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Landwirtschaftliche Bewässerung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1 Water for agriculture: externalities, drivers for change and future demands
- 1. Introduction: improving water management in agriculture: Jerry Knox, Cranfield University, UK;
- 2. Forecasting future water use in agriculture: Upali Amarasinghe, IWMI, Sri Lanka;
- 3. Monitoring agricultural water use, data challenges and potential solutions for sustainable water management: Tim Foster, University of Manchester, UK;

Part 2 Managing water for agriculture
- 4. Agronomic practices to optimise soil water retention: Stephen Anderson, University of Missouri, USA;
- 5. Advances in drainage design and management for irrigated agriculture: Henk Ritzema, Wageningen University, The Netherlands;
- 6. Tracking plant water abiotic stresses and signalling for irrigated horticulture: Ian C. Dodd, Lancaster University, UK;
- 7. Managing energy demands in irrigated agriculture: Juan Rodriguez-Diaz, University of Cordoba, Spain;
- 8. Solar powered irrigation: current developments and future uptake: Muhammed Arif Watto, University of Agriculture - Faisalabad, Pakistan;
- 9. PRECIMED: development of a DSS for precision irrigation in Mediterranean agriculture: Maria Fernanda Ortuno Gallud, Spanish National Research Council, Spain;

Part 3 Securing water resources for agriculture: diversification and collaboration
- 10. Advances in farmer-led irrigation development in Africa: Philip Woodhouse, University of Manchester, UK;
- 11. Improving water use in agriculture to reduce environmental impact: the irrigation efficiency paradox: Bruce Lankford, University of East Anglia, UK;
- 12. Developments in water sharing and water trading to secure supplies for agriculture: Sarah Wheeler, University of Adelaide, Australia;
- 13. Irrigation modernization in India: Martin Burton, Independent Consultant, UK;

Part 4 Reducing the environmental impacts of irrigation
- 14. Managing climate change, droughts and water scarcity affecting agriculture: Ray-Shyan Wu, National Central University, Taiwan;
- 15. Integrating biophysical and ballistic models to assess the agronomic and environmental impacts of precision irrigation: Andre Daccache, University of California-Davis, USA;
- 16. Water-energy-food nexus (WEF): Oscar Melo, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile;

Über Autor(innen)

Knox, Professor Jerry
Dr Jerry Knox is Professor of Agricultural Water Management based within the Water Science Institute at Cranfield University, UK. Professor Knox has an international reputation for his research on the science, engineering and management of water for agriculture, including assessing the relationships between water resources, drought, crop productivity and the environment, and the sustainability of irrigated production in the context of climate impacts and food security. His current research addressing water and climate risks is focussed in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. He is Editor of Outlook on Agriculture and Associate Editor for Irrigation Science.

Knox, Professor Jerry
Dr Jerry Knox is Professor of Agricultural Water Management based within the Water Science Institute at Cranfield University, UK. Professor Knox has an international reputation for his research on the science, engineering and management of water for agriculture, including assessing the relationships between water resources, drought, crop productivity and the environment, and the sustainability of irrigated production in the context of climate impacts and food security. His current research addressing water and climate risks is focussed in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. He is Editor of Outlook on Agriculture and Associate Editor for Irrigation Science.

Anderson, Professor Stephen
Stephen H. Anderson is the William A. Albrecht Distinguished Professor of Soil and Environmental Sciences in the School of Natural Resources at the University of Missouri, USA. His current areas of research include evaluating soil management effects on soil hydraulic properties, developing X-ray computed tomography and microtomography techniques to assess pore-scale soil properties and processes, and utilizing hydrologic models to evaluate effectiveness of conservation practices at the watershed scale.

Ritzema, Dr Henk
Henk Ritzema is a former Associate Professor at the Water Resources Management Chair Group of Wageningen University. He retired in September 2020. Henk Ritzema has published over 160 articles, books and reports and is a regular invited speaker at international conferences and workshops.

Rodriguez-Diaz, Professor Juan
Dr Juan Antonio Rodriguez is Professor of Hydraulics and Irrigation Engineering at the University of Córdoba, Spain. He has more than 20 years worth of experience in research, education and consultancy in the field of hydraulics and irrigation water resources management. He has authored over 100 papers in scientific peer reviewed journals (h index of 23 in JCR and 24 in Scopus) and has participated in 60 research and consultancy projects (project leader in 22).