Agricultural water management practices to improve the climate resilience of irrigated agriculture in India. (5th March 2022)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Agricultural water management practices to improve the climate resilience of irrigated agriculture in India. (5th March 2022)
- Main Title:
- Agricultural water management practices to improve the climate resilience of irrigated agriculture in India
- Authors:
- Sikka, Alok K.
Alam, Mohammad Faiz
Mandave, Vidya - Other Names:
- Hafeez Mohsin guestEditor.
Uhlenbrook Stefan guestEditor.
Schmitter Petra guestEditor. - Abstract:
- Abstract: The projected implications of climate change for water and agriculture to meet diverse and competitive water demands requires smart water management solutions. Science‐ and evidence‐based, agricultural water management (AWM) can significantly contribute to reduce unsustainable water use and help enhance water resilience and adaptation to climate change. This paper presents a brief overview of potential AWM practices focusing on enhancing water resilience, increasing yields, and wherever possible, reducing emissions. This is achieved via increased land and water use efficiency, water and energy savings, and improved water productivity with considerable scope to improve agricultural resilience. In this context, the prioritization of a location‐specific portfolio of smart AWM practices to make the right investment decisions is very important. We present two distinct and complementary approaches to prioritize AWM practices in this paper: one follows stakeholder analysis to build a prioritized portfolio of climate‐smart AWM practices and the other employs a simple water balance‐based approach to prioritize interventions. The way forward in mainstreaming and scaling out context‐specific climate‐smart AWM interventions is also discussed with a focus on capacity building, water management extension services, and the mobilization of resources through the convergence of institutions and co‐financing from relevant development schemes. Résumé: Les implications prévues duAbstract: The projected implications of climate change for water and agriculture to meet diverse and competitive water demands requires smart water management solutions. Science‐ and evidence‐based, agricultural water management (AWM) can significantly contribute to reduce unsustainable water use and help enhance water resilience and adaptation to climate change. This paper presents a brief overview of potential AWM practices focusing on enhancing water resilience, increasing yields, and wherever possible, reducing emissions. This is achieved via increased land and water use efficiency, water and energy savings, and improved water productivity with considerable scope to improve agricultural resilience. In this context, the prioritization of a location‐specific portfolio of smart AWM practices to make the right investment decisions is very important. We present two distinct and complementary approaches to prioritize AWM practices in this paper: one follows stakeholder analysis to build a prioritized portfolio of climate‐smart AWM practices and the other employs a simple water balance‐based approach to prioritize interventions. The way forward in mainstreaming and scaling out context‐specific climate‐smart AWM interventions is also discussed with a focus on capacity building, water management extension services, and the mobilization of resources through the convergence of institutions and co‐financing from relevant development schemes. Résumé: Les implications prévues du changement climatique pour l'eau et l'agriculture pour répondre à des demandes en eau diverses et compétitives nécessitent des solutions intelligentes de gestion de l'eau. La gestion de l'eau agricole, fondée sur des données scientifiques et factuelles, peut contribuer de manière significative à réduire l'utilisation non durable de l'eau et aider à renforcer la résilience de l'eau et l'adaptation au changement climatique. Ce document présente un bref aperçu des pratiques potentielles de gestion de l'eau agricole (AWM) axées sur l'amélioration de la résilience de l'eau, l'augmentation des rendements et, dans la mesure du possible, la réduction des émissions. Ceci est réalisé grâce à une efficacité accrue de l'utilisation des terres et de l'eau, des économies d'eau et d'énergie et une amélioration de la productivité de l'eau avec une portée considérable pour améliorer la résilience agricole. Dans ce contexte, la priorisation d'un portefeuille de pratiques GEA intelligentes spécifiques à un lieu pour prendre les bonnes décisions d'investissement est très importante. Nous présentons deux approches distinctes et complémentaires pour hiérarchiser les pratiques de GEA dans cet article: l'une suit l'analyse des parties prenantes pour construire un portefeuille hiérarchisé de pratiques de GEA intelligentes face au climat, et l'autre utilise une approche simple basée sur le bilan hydrique pour hiérarchiser les interventions. La voie à suivre pour intégrer et étendre les interventions de GEA intelligentes face au climat et spécifiques au contexte est également discutée en mettant l'accent sur le renforcement des capacités, les services de vulgarisation de la gestion de l'eau et la mobilisation des ressources grâce à la convergence des institutions et au cofinancement des programmes de développement pertinents. … (more)
- Is Part Of:
- Irrigation and drainage. Volume 71(2022)Supplement 1
- Journal:
- Irrigation and drainage
- Issue:
- Volume 71(2022)Supplement 1
- Issue Display:
- Volume 71, Issue 1 (2022)
- Year:
- 2022
- Volume:
- 71
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2022-0071-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 7
- Page End:
- 26
- Publication Date:
- 2022-03-05
- Subjects:
- agricultural water management -- climate resilience -- climate‐smart agricultural water management practices -- convergence -- irrigation
gestion de l'eau agricole -- pratiques de gestion de l'eau agricole intelligentes face au climat -- résilience climatique -- convergence -- irrigation
Irrigation engineering -- Periodicals
Drainage -- Periodicals
Flood control -- Periodicals
Sustainable agriculture -- Periodicals
627.52 - Journal URLs:
- http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ ↗
- DOI:
- 10.1002/ird.2696 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1531-0353
- Deposit Type:
- Legaldeposit
- View Content:
- Available online (eLD content is only available in our Reading Rooms) ↗
- Physical Locations:
- British Library DSC - 4580.946000
British Library DSC - BLDSS-3PM
British Library STI - ELD Digital store - Ingest File:
- 24546.xml