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FAO/ICARDA webinars on measuring evapotranspiration - now open
The webinars cover a number of evapotranspiration measurement themes including underlining the time and space scale of measurement applications and analyzing their accuracy and suitability for use in arid and semi-arid ...
Supplemental Irrigation: A Promising Climate-resilience Practice for Sustainable Dryland Agriculture
Around 80 % of the world’s agricultural land is rainfed, and contributes to at least two-thirds of global food production. About 41 % of the Earth’s land area is classi- fied as dryland (ISPC 2015), wherein the farming ...
Energy Reduction and Uniformity of Low-Pressure Online Drip Irrigation Emitters in Field Tests
A promising way of addressing the issue of growing water scarcity is through wider use of drip irrigation, which delivers water and fertilizer to crops in a slow, targeted manner, and has been shown to increase yields and ...
De-risking Cereal-based Agricultural Systems at Scale in the Drylands of Africa and Asia
De-risking cereal-based agricultural systems at scale in the drylands of Africa and Asia for achieving SDG2 under water scarcity and climate change: crop diversification, association with livestock, advisory services for ...
Supplemental Irrigation: A promising Climate-Smart Practice for Dryland Agriculture
Supplemental irrigation - the addition of
limited amounts of water to essentially
rainfed crops to improve and stabilize
yields when rainfall fails to provide
sufficient moisture for normal plant
growth - is an effective ...