Climate change challenges efforts to maintain and improve crop production in many regions.
In this Review, we examine yield responses to warmer temperatures, elevated carbon …

Agriculture accounts for 12% of global annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions (7.1 Gt
CO2 equivalent), primarily through non-CO2 emissions, namely methane (54%), nitrous …

Groundwater quality for irrigation purposes varies across regions, countries, and specific
locations, primarily due to factors such as groundwater extraction and utilization methods …

Providing affordable and nutritious food to a growing and increasingly affluent global
population requires multifaceted approaches to target supply and demand aspects. On the …

Elevating levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO 2), primarily driven by the burning of
fossil fuels, combustion of organic matter, and unsustainable land practices, have amplified …

This article provides a stocktake of the adaptation literature between 2013 and 2019 to
better understand how adaptation responses affect risk under the particularly challenging …

Irrigation is a land management practice with major environmental impacts. However, global
energy consumption and carbon emissions resulting from irrigation remain unknown. We …

Extreme droughts are affecting millions of livestock farmers in sub-Saharan Africa, causing
water shortages, famines, migration and fatalities. The construction of new small water …

Rain-fed agricultural systems, which solely depend on green water (ie soil moisture from
rainfall), sustain∼ 60% of global food production and are particularly vulnerable to vagaries …

The rapid expansion of desert croplands in the Tarim River Basin, which depend heavily on
irrigation with meltwater, has coincided with increases in snow and glacier melt in the high …