Download or read book Water and Sustainable Agriculture written by Iván Francisco García-Tejero and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-08-03 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irrigated agriculture, a vital component of general agriculture, supplies fruits, vegetables, and cereals consumed by humans and grains fed to animals. Consequently, agriculture is the largest user of fresh water globally, and irrigation practices in many parts of the world are biologically, economically, and socially unsustainable. Water management should balance the need for agricultural water and the need for a sustainable environment. Water-use efficiency is the prime challenge in worldwide farming practices where problems of water shortages are widespread. Currently, agriculture is undergoing significant changes in innovative irrigation, fertilizer technology, and agronomic expertise. These elements constitute a vital platform for sustainable agricultural success and for preventing environmental damage. This review presents several processes linked to environmental irrigation, balancing environmental protection with improved agricultural production.
Download or read book Water for Food Water for Life written by David Molden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 930 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Managing water resources is one of the most pressing challenges of our times - fundamental to how we feed 2 billion more people in coming decades, eliminate poverty, and reverse ecosystem degradation. This Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture, involving more than 700 leading specialists, evaluates current thinking on water and its interplay with agriculture to help chart the way forward. It offers actions for water management and water policy - to ensure more equitable and effective use. This assessment describes key water-food-environment trends that influence our lives today and uses scenarios to explore the consequences of a range of potential investments. It aims to inform investors and policymakers about water and food choices in light of such crucial influences as poverty, ecosystems, governance, and productivity. It covers rainfed agriculture, irrigation, groundwater, marginal-quality water, fisheries, livestock, rice, land, and river basins. Ample tables, graphs, and references make this an invaluable work for practitioners, academics, researchers, and policymakers in water management, agriculture, conservation, and development. Published with IWMI.
Download or read book Water for Agriculture written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Documentation Center and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Water for Agriculture L Eau en Agriculture Agua Para Agricultura Annotated Bibliography Author and Subject Index FAO Publications and Documents 1945 Sep 1973 Etc written by Documentation Center (FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS) and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eaux et territoires 3e dition written by Frédéric Lasserre and published by PUQ. This book was released on 2011-10-25T00:00:00-04:00 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guerres de l’eau, rareté de l’eau, gestion de l’eau. Qu’elle soit potable, agricole ou destinée à un usage industriel ou de loisir, l’eau est devenue l’objet de vives convoitises et de houleux débats quant aux modalités de son partage et de sa distribution. La question, d’abord de l’accès à l’eau, considérée comme une ressource essentielle, puis du partage de l’eau, et enfin surtout de la conflictualité potentielle de partages de plus en plus difficiles, a récemment pris le devant de la scène. L’eau sera-t-elle l’enjeu des conflits du xxie siècle ? Faut-il prêter attention aux prédictions alarmistes qui annoncent la multiplication des crises dans de nombreuses régions du globe, ou faut-il voir dans ces discours une version contemporaine des peurs millénaristes ? Des solutions modernes, comme des technologies plus adaptées ou la mise en place de mécanismes de marché, pourront-elles résoudre ces crises prochainement ? Comment les mécanismes de distribution de la ressource établis par les sociétés humaines en viennent-ils à s’enrayer aujourd’hui ? Quelles solutions se dessinent pour favoriser la nécessaire coopération dans ce domaine ? À partir de cas issus de plusieurs continents, les auteurs examinent les facteurs liés à l’accessibilité à l’eau ainsi que les principaux enjeux de la répartition, de la distribution et des choix relatifs à l’usage de cette importante ressource.
Download or read book Agricultural Water Management written by A. L. Van Wijk and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-08-27 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an outcome of the symposium on agricultural water management in Netherlands and discusses the methods that leads to cost effective but environmentally acceptable techniques. The book covers following topics: drainage and reclamation of soil and effect of drainage on agriculture.
Download or read book Agriculture a River Runs Through it written by Paul D. Capel and published by Geological Survey. This book was released on 2018 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Format not distributed to depository libraries.
Download or read book Irrigation in the Mediterranean written by François Molle and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mediterranean irrigation is diverse due to, among other factors, the relative importance of water in the economy of each country, varied levels of aridity, heterogeneous levels economic, social and technological levels of development, and differences in political and social organization. However, most of the Mediterranean countries face similar problems to meet their water demands because of the scarcity and variability of renewable resources, growing water requirements from non-agricultural sectors, increasing environmental concerns related to water quality and environmental degradation, a social demand for larger public participation, and important technological changes. The time has come to reconsider the “not one drop lost to the sea” philosophy of yesteryears largely and to 'live within limits'. This book focuses on eight selected countries (Tunisia, Morocco, Spain, France, Italy, Turkey, Israel and Egypt) and provides a comparative perspective that both thoroughly explores their specificities and identifies the common challenges faced by the irrigation sector in these countries. The book has been written at a critical moment, when the continued application of a supply-side water management model is revealing its unsustainable nature in numerous places; when significant technological changes are taking place in the irrigation sector; when new forms of management and governance are widely held as badly needed; and finally, when climate change is compounding many of the difficulties that have characterized irrigation policies and practices in the past decades. This complicated future context makes Mediterranean irrigation face various political dilemmas on water management, raising social tensions, triggering territorial and land conflicts, and stimulating new technological developments. This book provides a timely analysis of the particular trajectory of eight Mediterranean countries in these uncertain transformations, and attempts to identify the best strategies to avert or overcome future risks.
Download or read book Irrigation in Africa in Figures written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 1995 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scientific Agriculture written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Water Charging in Irrigated Agriculture written by Gez Cornish and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document presents an analysis of experience in irrigation water charging, drawn from published literature and a series of six case studies. These sources provide a broad spectrum of experience from less-developed to more-developed countries. The aim has been to make an assessment of the claims concerning irrigation water charging as a tool for cost recovery (achieving financial sustainability) and demand management (achieving resource sustainability).
Download or read book Agriculture et protection des ressources en eau written by Office international de l'eau and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book L Eau written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Fao. This book was released on 1989-01-30 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les normes du Codex pour les eaux minerales naturelles, pour les eaux potables en bouteille, et les codes d'usages en matiere d'hygiene pour le captage, l'exploitation et la commercialisation des eaux minerales. Cette premiere edition comprend les textes adoptes par la Commission du Codex Alimentarius jusqu'en 2007. Publie egalement en anglais et en espagnol.
Download or read book Control of Water Pollution from Agriculture written by E. D. Ongley and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 1996 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agricultural operations can contribute to water quality deterioration through the release of several materials into water: sediments, pesticides, animal manures, fertilizers and other sources of inorganic and organic matter. This ''guidelines'' document on control and management of agricultural water pollution has the objectives of delineating the nature and consequences of agricultural impacts on water quality, and of providing a framework for practical measures to be undertaken by relevant professionals and decision-makers to control water pollution.
Download or read book Water the Yearbook of Agriculture 1955 written by United States. Department of Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Safe Use of Wastewater in Agriculture written by Hiroshan Hettiarachchi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a broad and global level description of the current status of wastewater use in agriculture and then brings the readers to various places in the MENA Region and Europe to explain how some countries and regions have addressed the challenges during implementation. On a global scale, over 20 million hectares of agricultural land are irrigated using wastewater. This is one good, and perhaps the most prominent, example of the safe use potential of wastewater. Water scarcity and the cost of energy and fertilisers are among the main factors driving millions of farmers and other entrepreneurs to make use of wastewater. In order to address the technical, institutional, and policy challenges of safe water reuse, developing countries and countries in transition need clear institutional arrangements and more skilled human resources, with a sound understanding of the opportunities and potential risks of wastewater use. Stakeholders in wastewater irrigation who need to implement from scratch or improve current conditions, find it difficult to gather the necessary information on practical implementation aspects. The main objective of this book is to bridge that gap.
