Adapting agriculture to climate change via sustainable irrigation: biophysical potentials and feedbacks

L Rosa - Environmental Research Letters, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Irrigated agriculture accounts for∼ 90% of anthropogenic freshwater consumption, is
deployed on 22% of cultivated land, and provides 40% of global food production. Expanding …

Implementing sustainable irrigation in water-scarce regions under the impact of climate change

G Nikolaou, D Neocleous, A Christou, E Kitta… - Agronomy, 2020 - mdpi.com
The sustainability of irrigated agriculture is threatening due to adverse climate change, given
future projections that every one in four people on Earth might be suffering from extreme …

The global value of water in agriculture

P D'Odorico, DD Chiarelli, L Rosa… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Major environmental functions and human needs critically depend on water. In regions of
the world affected by water scarcity economic activities can be constrained by water …

Drought in Northeast Brazil: A review of agricultural and policy adaptation options for food security

JA Marengo, MV Galdos, A Challinor… - Climate Resilience …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The semiarid lands of Northeast Brazil represent one of the most densely populated regions
of the country. Rainfall variability together with land degradation and large‐scale poverty in …

An overview of smart irrigation management for improving water productivity under climate change in drylands

Z Ahmed, D Gui, G Murtaza, L Yunfei, S Ali - Agronomy, 2023 - mdpi.com
Global drylands, covering about 41% of Earth's surface and inhabited by 38% of the world's
population, are facing the stark challenges of water scarcity, low water productivity, and food …

Developing smart sustainable irrigation matrix (SIM)-based model for selection of best irrigation techniques: A framework to achieve SDGs

Y Heiba, MG Ibrahim, AE Mohamed, M Fujii… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
Adopting sustainable agriculture practices using multi-criteria evaluation methods couldn't
adequately describe the correlation between the irrigation techniques and most of the …

Water and food sustainability in the Riparian countries of Lake Chad in Africa

OS Olowoyeye, RS Kanwar - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Lake Chad is a strategic water resource shared by more than 40 million people in Sub-
Saharan Africa. In the 1960s, it served as a primary source of water for irrigation and fishing …

The alleviation effects of biostimulants application on lettuce plants grown under deficit irrigation

C Chaski, SA Petropoulos - Horticulturae, 2022 - mdpi.com
Τhe aim of this study was to examine the potential of using biostimulants for the amelioration
of deficit irrigation effects on field-grown lettuce plants growth parameters (cv. Doris …

Cropland fallow reduces agricultural water consumption by 303 million tons annually in Gansu Province, China

W Song, W Song - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
The high-intensity utilization of global cropland causes water shortage and food crisis, which
seriously affects the realization of SDG 2 (zero hunger), SDG 6 (clean water and sanitation) …

The spatiotemporal trajectory of US agricultural irrigation withdrawal during 1981–2015

R Zeng, W Ren - Environmental Research Letters, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Irrigation has enhanced food security and biofuel production throughout the world. However,
the sustainability of irrigation faces challenges from climate variability and extremes …