Water productivity in agriculture [[electronic resource] ] : limits and opportunities for improvement / / edited by Jacob W. Kijne, Randolph Barker, and David Molden

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450720703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxon ; Cambridge, MA, : CABI Pub., c2003
• ISBN: 1-280-83384-X; 9786610833849; 1-84593-339-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (352 p.)
• Collana: Comprehensive assessment of water management in agriculture series ; ; 1
• Altri autori (Persone): KijneJ. W; BarkerRandolph; MoldenD. J
• Disciplina: 631.7
• Soggetti: Water in agriculture; Irrigation farming; Crops and water; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Contributors; Series Foreword: Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture Series; Improving Water Productivity in Agriculture: Editors' Overview; 1 A Water-productivity Framework for Understanding and Action; 2 Economics of Water Productivity in Managing Water for Agriculture; 3 The Concept of Efficiency in Waterresources Management and Policy; 4 Rice Production in Water-scarce Environments; 5 Managing Saline and Alkaline Water for Higher Productivity; 6 Water Productivity under Saline Conditions; 7 Opportunities for Increasing Water Productivity of CGIAR Crops through Plant Breeding and Molecular Biology8 Management of Drought in ICRISAT Cereal and Legume Mandate Crops; 9 Water Productivity in Rain-fed Agriculture: Challenges and Opportunities for Smallholder Farmers in Drought-prone Tropical Agroecosystems*; 10 World Water Productivity: Current Situation and Future Options; 11 Improving Water ; Productivity in the Dry Areas of West Asia and North Africa; 12 Efficient Management of Rainwater for Increased Crop Productivity and Groundwater Recharge in Asia; 13 Water Productivity in Forestry and Agroforestry14 Water Productivity and Potato Cultivation; 15 Rice-Wheat Cropping Systems in the Indo-Gangetic Plains: Issues of Water Productivity in Relation to New Resourceconserving Technologies; 16 Land and Water Productivity of Wheat in the Western Indo-Gangetic Plains of India and Pakistan: a Comparative Analysis; 17 Reform of the Thai Irrigation Sector: is there Scope for Increasing Water Productivity?; 18 Upscaling Water Productivity in Irrigated Agriculture Using Remote-sensing and GIS Technologies; 19 Improving Water Productivity through Deficit Irrigation: Examples from Syria, the North China Plain and Oregon, USAAppendix A A Note on Transpiration; Appendix B Note on Agronomic Practices for Increasing Crop Water Productivity; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Focusing on both irrigated and rain-fed agriculture, this book gives a review of the limits and opportunities for improving water productivity in crop production. It demonstrates how efficiency of water use can be enhanced to maximize yields.