Innovation Issues in Water, Agriculture and Food

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