Sustainable Agricultural Water Management Under Climate Change

Dear Colleagues,

Climate change is profoundly altering the availability, distribution, and quality of water resources, posing major challenges for sustainable agricultural production, with its consequences including more frequent and intense droughts and floods, erratic rainfall, rising temperatures, deforestation, soil salinization, desertification, degradation of watersheds, and shrinking or expanding cultivated lands. These transformations are intensifying pressures on agricultural water systems, threatening both food security and ecosystem health.

This Special Issue, “Sustainable Agricultural Water Management Under Climate Change,” aims to present cutting-edge research and practical solutions that enhance water productivity, improve soil–water–crop interactions, and mitigate climate risks. Innovative and adaptive strategies, such as climate-smart irrigation and drainage systems, integrated watershed management, drainage water recycling, managed aquifer recharge, soil moisture conservation, water reuse technologies, nature-based solutions, and integrated soil–water–nutrient management, can play a central role in addressing these challenges.

We therefore invite original research papers, reviews, and case studies addressing topics such as climate-smart irrigation and drainage, water reuse and conservation technologies, modeling of hydrologic and nutrient processes under changing climates, and policy frameworks supporting sustainable water governance in agriculture. By integrating field experiments, data analytics, and modeling approaches, this Special Issue seeks to advance understanding and promote adaptive water management strategies that safeguard both food security and ecosystem resilience.

Dr. Vinayak S. Shedekar
Guest Editor

Dr. Babak Dialameh
Guest Editor Assistant

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