Sustainable Irrigation Strategies for Improving Crop Water Productivity
This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Engineering and Science".
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The world’s population is growing with an increasing demand for food and fiber. However, freshwater resources for agriculture are decreasing due to climate change, with more pronounced extreme events like floods and drought. Improper irrigation management may also cause agricultural land salinization, jeopardizing crop production mostly in some coastal river deltas. For sustainable irrigated agriculture, it is necessary to produce more food and fiber with the unit quantity of water to be able to meet food and fiber demands through precision irrigation strategies, soil moisture sensor-based irrigation scheduling, crop choice to meet the available water. This Special Issue calls for contributions, but not limited to, the following topics: irrigation strategies for improving crop water productivity while minimizing negative impact on the environment, irrigation water management and modeling, crop evapotranspiration measurement and estimation/modeling, advanced irrigation technologies for improving irrigation water use efficiency, precision irrigation, variable rate irrigation.
Dr. Koffi Djaman
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Deficit irrigation strategies
- Partial root-zone drying irrigation
- Variable-rate irrigation
- Precision irrigation
- Irrigation scheduling and management
- Soil moisture sensors
- Irrigation water use efficiency
- Sustainable irrigation
- Irrigation and environmental
- Efficiency of the energy use in irrigation
- Alternate wetting and drying
- Crop water productivity
- Crop evapotranspiration
- Sustainable irrigation
- Water use efficiency
- Climate-smart agriculture
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Published Papers
Sustainability - ISSN 2071-1050