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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 ...
Valuation of Ecosystem Services for Improving Agricultural Water Management in Kazakhstan - Project Briefs
Valuation of Ecosystem Services for Improving Agricultural Water Management in Kazakhstan - Project Briefs
Dry Ecosystem Services: Approaches for Valuation and Ensuring Public Support
Dry ecosystems are home to some of the most charismatic species, support high species endemism and comprise many unique ecosystems and biomes, including savannahs, dry forest, coastal areas and deserts.
However, currently ...
Impact of Climate Changes on Water Resources Availability in the Orontes River Watershed: Case of Homs Governorate in Syria
Homs governorate watershed is considered as the agricultural production hub and a strategic water reservoir of Syria. However, land fertility and the increase of population, as well as climatic changes, urged the farmers ...
Importance of valuation of ecosystems services for sustainable development
Our health and well-being depends upon the services provided by ecosystems and their components: water, soil, nutrients and organisms. The ecosystem services are the processes by which the environment produces resources ...
Water management
Agriculture is the largest user of the world's freshwater resources, consuming 70% of the available supply (UNW-DPAC 2011). As the world's population rises and consumes more food, and industries as well as urban developments ...
Managing Scarce Water Resources in Irrigated Agri-Food Systems of Central Asia Two Case Studies
Irrigated agriculture is the backbone of Central Asian economies. Therefore, efficient irrigation water management is of crucial importance to the sustainable crop production in the region. Presented here are two studies ...
Elaboration of measured parameter for ET-based irrigation scheduling for Aral Sea Basin site, Khorezm, Uzbekistan
Elaboratio of measured parameters for ET-based irrigation scheduling for Aral Sea Basin site, Khorezm, Uzbekistan.
SWAT: Agricultural water and nonpoint source pollution management at a watershed scale—Part II
This is the second part of a Special Issue on developments and applications of the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) related to agricultural water and nonpoint source pollution management at a watershed scale (see Volk ...
Valuation of Ecosystem Services for Improving Agricultural Water Management in Kazakhstan - Project Reports
Project report_2016, RIOS modeling final report, SWAT modeling final report and 2015-7-14-Semi-annual report