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Book (series)AquaCrop on the ground
Model applications for sustainable agricultural water management
2025Also available in:
No results found.Efficient agricultural water management is essential in addressing global challenges like water scarcity, climate variability, and increasing food demand. AquaCrop, a crop–water productivity model developed by FAO with leading scientific institutions, offers an innovative, research-driven approach to optimize water use and boost crop yields. Designed for water-limited conditions, AquaCrop provides actionable insights for farmers, policymakers, and researchers to improve water-use efficiency. Since its 2009 launch, it has been widely praised for its simplicity, scientific rigour, and adaptability to different agroecological contexts.This report highlights real-world applications of AquaCrop, showcasing its effectiveness in arid regions with water shortages and areas with excess moisture. These examples demonstrate AquaCrop’s versatility in optimizing irrigation schedules, supporting decision-making, and promoting sustainable agricultural intensification. The report also emphasizes the value of collaboration among FAO, national agricultural agencies, research institutions, and farming communities.By integrating climate-smart practices, AquaCrop contributes to food security, environmental sustainability, and economic stability. It enhances resilience to climate change, supports sustainable resource management, and fosters evidence-based decision-making. This report underscores FAO's commitment to advancing practical solutions for agricultural water management and aims to inspire further collaboration and innovation to ensure sustainable water use in agriculture for future generations. -
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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