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Policy briefReal water savings in agriculture 2023
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No results found.Irrigated agriculture consumes the largest share of water for human use by far, signifying that it is within the irrigation sector that solutions to address and manage water scarcity must be found. Unfortunately, overcoming the water crisis through agricultural interventions is not simple, and increasing attention is now being paid to common misconceptions and overly simplistic (and often erroneous) views in agricultural water management. In particular, the role that ‘increasing water use efficiency’ can play in tackling the water crisis is dominated by misunderstandings related to hydrology, economics, and human behaviour. This policy brief is based on extensive work carried out by FAO and FutureWater under the Asia Pacific Water Scarcity Programme (WSP). It clearly explains the complexities associated with efforts to increase water use efficiency and the importance of utilising water accounting and consistent use of terminology in developing water management interventions. A practical new tool is introduced that provides clear and practical guidelines on how to mplement ‘real’ water savings in agriculture by selecting suitable interventions that enhance crop water productivity. -
DocumentCapacity Development for Farm Management Strategies to Improve Crop-Water Productivity using Aquacrop. Regional Workshop, 17-22 May 2015 - Cordoba, Spain.
Strengthening Agricultural Water Efficiency and Productivity on the African and Global level. GCP/INT/231/SWI Output 1
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No results found.The project “CP/INT/231/SWI: Strengthening Agricultural Water Efficiency and Productivity on the African and Global Level” aims at reducing hunger and poverty in three African countries (Burkina Faso, Morocco and Uganda) by focusing on the improvement of Agriculture Water Management (AWM) and mainstreaming AWM in national frameworks and processes. One of the main outputs of the project is to enhance capacity for improved crop water productivity in small-scale agriculture in Burkina Faso, Morocco and Uganda (Output 1). The workshop “Capacity Development for Farm Management Strategies to Improve Crop-Water Productivity Using AquaCrop” was one of the activities of this output.The objective of the workshops was to train participants from the three countries of the project on the practical applications of AquaCrop, in order to improve their skills in strategic management towards increasing crop water productivity in rain-fed and irrigated production systems, and to establish national core t eams acquainted to AquaCrop and be able to service project’s future activities concerned with Crop Water Productivity theme. -
Book (series)The AquaCrop model – Enhancing crop water productivity
Ten years of development, dissemination and implementation 2009–2019
2021Also available in:
No results found.Water resources are linked to the global challenges of food insecurity and poverty, as well as to climate change adaptation and mitigation. In line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SGD), FAO works towards several dimensions of sustainable development, including the promotion of coherent approaches to efficient, productive and sustainable water management, from farm to river basin scales. Accordingly, FAO is enhancing well-informed on-the-ground decision-making processes on water management through projects, knowledge advancement, information-sharing and tools development, such as AquaCrop, the FAO crop-water productivity model. This model assists in assessing the effects of environment (including atmospheric CO2 concentration) and management on crop production through the simulation of yield response to water of herbaceous crops. It is particularly suited to address conditions where water is a key limiting factor in crop production. In 2009, FAO officially launched AquaCrop, being the result of several years of collaborative work among scientists, water and crop specialists and practitioners worldwide, bringing together previously fragmented information on crop yields in response to water use and water deficit. AquaCrop has evolved over the different versions released since its first launch, but it always balances accuracy, simplicity and robustness. This has enabled it to remain faithful to its goal, i.e., to be a dynamic tool accessible to several types of users, mainly practitioner-type end users, in different disciplines and for a wide range of applications. In addition, AquaCrop may be considered a valuable tool by research scientists for analysis and conceptualization.
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