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Water productivity site-level assessment in Jordan

Year of publication 2022

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 4p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet

Synopsis (short abstract) Water productivity (WP) is broadly defined as the ratio of the outputs obtained from crops to the amount of water used to produce those outputs. WP can be expressed in biophysical terms (for example, yields in kg/m3), economical terms (for example, dollars/m3) or social terms (for example, employment/m3). The amount of water used can be expressed in terms of the amount of water supplied, or consumed as evapotranspiration or transpiration. A Water Productivity (WP) baseline assessment was carried out to set the state of the art about the status of and the knowledge gap in crops’ water productivity in Jordan. A site level assessment was then implemented to understand the reality on the ground, surveying farmers to understand the actual crops’ WP. Such survey provides all required data for assessing more reliable WP and for determining the WP gap. It also helps to determine what farming practices should be improved or adopted to enhance WP. Site-level assessment helps also to assess the availability of actual data on farm water management and its accuracy.

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