Improving water management in agriculture
Irrigation and food production
Contributions by Professor Jerry W. Knox, Dr Upali Amarasinghe, Dr Mladen Todorovic, Professor Stephen Anderson, Dr Henk Ritzema, Professor Alfonso Calera Belmonte, Professor Juan Rodriguez-Diaz, Dr Muhammed Arif Watto, Dr Graham Jewitt, Emeritus Professor Philip Woodhouse, Dr Steve Moncaster, Professor Bruce Lankford, Professor Sarah Wheeler, Professor Pippa Chapman, Dr Tapas Biswas, Dr Ray-Shyan Wu, Dr Oscar Melo Edited by Professor Jerry W. Knox
Publication date:
28 May 2024Length of book:
400 pagesPublisher
Burleigh Dodds Science PublishingDimensions:
229x152mm6x9"
ISBN-13: 9781801462747
Irrigated agriculture accounts for around 70% of global water use. However, an estimated 60% of irrigated cropland remains highly water-stressed, a problem intensified by the effects of climate change.
Improving water management in agriculture: Irrigation and food production considers ways of addressing this challenge. It reviews advances in monitoring and optimising irrigation efficiency, ways of retaining and re-using water resources as well as how farmers can work collaboratively with other stakeholders to manage watersheds more sustainably.
The book highlights key areas where innovation is required to ensure that water use is optimised at farm and watershed scales. The book also encourages farmers to reassess their current irrigation models and implement alternative practices which improve efficiency with a reduced environmental impact.
“The book does exceptionally well in linking the myriad of issues which are relevant to agricultural water management, covering biophysical and engineering aspects together with socioeconomics. In doing this, the editor and the book’s contributing authors have presented an excellent state of the art analysis of irrigation and food production on an international level.” (Professor Elías Fereres, University of Cordoba and IAS-CSIC, Spain)