Water scarcity is already set to be one of the main issues of the 21st century, because of
competing needs between civil, industrial, and agricultural use. Agriculture is currently the …

Consumptive water footprint (WF) reduction in irrigated crop production is essential given
the increasing competition for freshwater. This study explores the effect of three …

Efficient agricultural water use is required for food safety and water alleviation on a global
scale. Combining the water footprint and agricultural water use paradigms and enveloping …

Traditional vegetables are piloted as champion species for sub-Saharan Africa, a region
experiencing high levels of nutritional food insecurity and water scarcity. The important …

Different levels of water and nitrogen are considered to have significant effects on yields in
arid regions. This paper aims to reveal the effects of levels of water, nitrogen fertilizer and …

Field studies were conducted for two consecutive seasons (summer and fall) under sub-
temperate climatic conditions at southwest of Cairo, Egypt (29° 35′ N 30° 23′ E) in saline …

Agriculture is the sector most sensitive to climate change. It is of great significance to explore
the response characteristics of crop water footprint (WF) in rain-fed and irrigation agriculture …

A successive summer and fall experiments were conducted to study the effect of deficit
irrigation growing seasons on the squash water status, total fruit yield and water use …

Crop-water production functions are important tools for quantifying effects of water scarcity
and climate change on agricultural production, and are also widely used within hydro …

Different irrigation technologies and strategies have been proposed as means to improve
the overall irrigation management and thus the rational use of the available water resources …