Water Management for Sustainable Food Production

• Other Authors: Kannan, Narayanan (Editor), Swamy, Aavudai Anandhi (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020
• Subjects: Research & information: general; Biology, life sciences; Technology, engineering, agriculture; AquaCrop model; capillary rise; climate change; rainfall variability; supplemental irrigation; crop growth; lettuce; AquaCrop; water saving; water productivity; deficit irrigation; nitrogen productivity; fertigation; drip irrigation; low-discharge; arid regions; Africa; food security; system of rice intensification; water conservation; climate variability; water use efficiency; multi-crop production; pressure irrigation systems; water costs; corn; soybeans; maize; crop-water production function; West Africa; spatiotemporal rainfall variability; tied ridges; scattered plots; pearl millet; yield loss; crop uptake; food quality; geogenic; emerging contaminants; nanomaterials; lysimeter; canola; water table; root distribution; evapotranspiration; sustainable irrigation; bibliometric analysis; innovation and technology; unconventional water resources; delayed transplanting; seedling age; seedling density; wet season; grain sorghum; precipitation; rainfed; multiple linear regression; crop yield; principal component analysis; water allocation; WEAP model; scenario; Awash River Basin; sustainability; agriculture; virtual water trade; blue; green; arid region; brackish water; sub surface drip irrigation (SDI); salinity; sodicity; olives trees; excess precipitation; irrigation water quality; virtual water; brackish groundwater; rainwater harvesting; socio-economic impacts
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The agricultural community is face with the challenge of increasing food production by more than 70% to meet demand from the global population increase by the mid-21st century. Sustainable food production involves the sustained availability of resources, such as water and energy, to agriculture. The...