Water Productivity and Food Security
eBook - ePub

Water Productivity and Food Security

Global Trends and Regional Patterns

  1. 280 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Water Productivity and Food Security

Global Trends and Regional Patterns

About this book

Water Productivity and Food Security: Global Trends and Regional Patterns, Volume Three reviews the need for water productivity improvements in agriculture, addressing three distinct questions pertaining to agricultural water productivity improvement in developing countries, including what are the regions where water is a limiting factor for raising agricultural outputs and water productivity improvements, what are the technological measures in irrigation that can raise agricultural water productivity and result in water saving at various scales, and what opportunities exist in the developing economies of South Asia and Africa for raising water productivity and improving water economy at basin scale. This book provides a framework to characterize river basins based on water availability, water supplies, water uses and water demands to ascertain the need and measures available for improving crop water productivity that would be effective at various scales, i.e., plant-level, plot-level, irrigation system level and basin level. This is an essential reference for anyone interested in water management and agriculture. - Presents clear explanations of the physical and technical measures that can be adopted to improve productivity of water in agricultural production under different basin conditions - Offers physical strategies for improving water productivity in agriculture in different agroecological regions, along with the institutional and policy measures that affect them - Includes methodologies for assessing the food security challenges of individual nations using empirical analysis and global datasets

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Table of contents

  1. Cover image
  2. Title page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Abbreviations
  9. List of Figures
  10. List of Tables
  11. Chapter 1: Water productivity improvements for agricultural growth and food security: Where and why?
  12. Chapter 2: Implications of a new methodology for assessing global water and food security challenges for agricultural water productivity
  13. Chapter 3: Conceptual issues in water use efficiency and water productivity
  14. Chapter 4: Estimating different productivity functions: Theory and review of past global attempts
  15. Chapter 5: Past trends in water productivity at the global and regional scale
  16. Chapter 6: Implications of future growth in demand for agricultural commodities and climate change on land and water use and water productivity
  17. Chapter 7: Past growth in agricultural productivity in South Asia
  18. Chapter 8: Measure for raising crop water productivity in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
  19. Chapter 9: Constraints of improving crop water productivity in rainfed and irrigated systems in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa
  20. Chapter 10: Framework for identifying the interventions required for enhancing water productivity at various scales
  21. Chapter 11: Water productivity, water use, and agricultural growth: Global experience and lessons for future
  22. Index