Water Productivity in Agriculture: Limits and Opportunities for Improvement

by Jacob W Kijne, Randolph Barker, David J Molden

Overview

Focusing on both irrigated and rain-fed agriculture, this book gives a state-of-the art review of the limits and opportunities for improving water productivity in crop production. It demonstrates how the efficiency of water use can be enhanced to maximize yields.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780851996691
Publisher:	CABI
Publication date:	08/06/2003
Series:	Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture Series , #1
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	7.10(w) x 9.70(h) x 1.10(d)

Table of Contents

* A Water productivity framework for understanding and action
* Economics of water productivity in managing water for agriculture
* The concept of efficiency in water resources management and policy
* Rice production in water-scarce environments
* Managing saline and alkaline water for higher productivity
* Water productivity under saline conditions
* Opportunities for increasing water productivity of CGIAR crops through plant breeding and molecular biology
* Management of drought in ICRISAT cereal and legume mandate crops
* Water productivity in rain-fed agriculture: challenges and opportunities for smallholder farmers in drought-prone tropical agro-ecosystems
* World water productivity: current situation and future options
* Improving water productivity in the dry areas of West Africa and North Africa
* Efficient management of rainwater for increased crop productivity and groundwater recharge in Asia
* Water productivity in forestry and agroforestry
* Water productivity and potato cultivation
* Rice-wheat cropping systems in the Indo-Gangetic plains: Issues of water productivity in relation to new resource - conserving technologies
* Land-and water productivity of wheat in the Western Indo-Gangetic plains of India and Pakistan: A comparative analysis
* Reform of the Thai Irrigation Sector: Is there scope for increasing water productivity?
* Upscaling water productivity in irrigated agriculture using remote-sensing and GIS technologies
* Improving water productivity through deficit irrigation: examples from Syria, North China Plain and Oregon, USA