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Nowadays, even with the growth and progress of the agricultural sector, the food gap (FG) is still wide, particularly for strategic crops, affecting the national economy and compromising the food security. The realization of self-sufficiency can[...]Article
Climate change, water shortages and desertification threaten the economic and environmental sustainability in the Mediterranean. Limited rainfall and higher temperatures put agricultural production, which relies on water availability, in jeopard[...]Article
The objective of this study was to measure the efficiency level of Water Users Associations (WUAs) in the coastal oases of Gabès (South-Est of Tunisia) and assessing its main determinants. First, an input-oriented data envelopment analysis (DEA)[...]Article
E.A. Abioye ; M.S.Z. Abidin ; M.N. Aman ; M.S.A. Mahmud ; S. Buyamin |The increasing demand for water is depleting the natural water resources worldwide. One of the major consumers of water is the agricultural industry. Traditional means of irrigation results in a lot of water wastage due to which the notion of pr[...]Article
Trouver des moyens déconomiser leau en agriculture est un enjeu crucial. En Europe, lagriculture est le principal utilisateur deau, avec plus de 50 % des prélèvements totaux. Dans de larges portions du territoire européen, les utilisations d[...]Article
Campo de Dalías, located in southeastern Spain, is the greatest European exponent of greenhouse agriculture. The development of this type of agriculture has led to an exponential economic development of one of the poorest areas of Spain, in a sh[...]Article
F. ElMokh ; K. Nagaz ; M.M. Masmoudi ; N. Ben Mechlia |Field studies on saline water use (6 dS/m) for carrot, lettuce and pepper production in smallholder's farms were conducted in the arid region of Medenine-Tunisia. The irrigation regimes were full (FI) and deficit (DI-80, DI-60, FI-DI60) irrigate[...]Article
R. Benniou ; H. Tayeb-Bey ; S. Yahiaoui ; C. Tir |En Algérie, comme au Maghreb, les ressources naturelles sont certes diversifiées mais elles demeurent menacées par leffet du changement climatique. Afin de maintenir un minimum de production agricole en cette région, la gestion de leau sous le[...]Article
C. Labrousse ; W. Ludwig ; S. Pinel ; M. Sadaoui ; G. Lacquement |In the Mediterranean, climate change and human pressures are expected to significantly impact the availability of surface water resources. In order to quantify these impacts during the last 60 years (19592018), we examined the hydro-climatic an[...]Article
A. Elbeltagi ; M.R. Aslam ; A. Malik ; B. Mehdinejadiani ; A. Srivastava ; A.S. Bhatia ; J. Deng |Spatial-temporal information of different water resources is essential to rationally manage, sustainably develop, and optimally utilize water. This study focused on simulating future water footprint (WF) of two agronomically important crops (i.e[...]Article
Développer une politique de stockage de l'eau dans le cadre du plan de relance de l'économie est nécessaire pour lutter contre le réchauffement climatique et sécuriser le revenu des agriculteurs.Article
D. Cammarano ; D. Cammarano ; D. Ronga ; I. Di Mola ; M. Mori ; M. Parisi |Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) is a globally important vegetable recognized for its positive health benefits. As most of the vegetable production, tomato require significant amount of agronomic inputs. However, recent shifts in climate pattern[...]Article
F. Pedrero ; S.R. Grattan ; A. Ben-Gal ; G.A. Vivaldi |Olive trees are iconic to the Mediterranean landscape and in recent times, have expanded to other regions across the globe that share similar climatic conditions. Olive oil production benefits from irrigation, but with a changing climate and unc[...]Article
One of the most important challenges in any society is the issue of food and water supply. Undoubtedly, agriculture has a major role in water consumption, and grains have the largest use in the food of people. Bread is also an essential commodit[...]Article
Fulfilling both Water and soil conservation and Integrated rural development objectives, hillside reservoirs are very popular components of water and/or rural management strategies. In Central Tunisia, more than 800 reservoirs have been buil[...]Article
Good management of water resources requires a good allocation of their availability, especially in public irrigated schemes in Tunisia. This paper contributes to a better reallocation of available water resources at the farm and regional levels.[...]Article
Sustainable food systems are high on the political and research agendas. One of the three pillars of sustainability is environmental sustainability. We argue that, when defining related policies, such as policies under the European Green Deal, b[...]Article
Water is becoming an increasingly scarce resource worldwide, suggesting that water rationing methods should be revised to improve water allocation efficiency, especially during cyclical scarcity events (droughts). The proportional rule is the mo[...]Article
V.A. Tzanakakis ; V.A. Tzanakakis ; A.N. Angelakis ; N.V. Paranychianakis ; Y.G. Dialynas ; G. Tchobanoglous |Crete, located in the South Mediterranean Sea, is characterized by long coastal areas, varied terrain relief and geology, and great spatial and inter-annual variations in precipitation. Under average meteorological conditions, the island is wate[...]Article
A. Elbeltagi ; J. Deng ; K. Wang ; Y. Hong |Modeling crop water use as a useful decision tool for agricultural policy decision-makers to improve water-use efficiency has been increasing. This study aimed to estimate, forecast, and model the green and blue water footprints (WFg and WFb, re[...]Article
Water has important economic values, mainly in the agricultural sector. Beside enhancing agricultural output and crop diversification, irrigation generates positive externalities which have been little emphasized by the literature. The purpose o[...]Article
M. Tuninetti ; L. Ridolfi ; F. Laio |International agricultural trade triggers inter-dependency among distant countries, not only in economic terms but also under an environmental perspective. Agricultural trade has been shown to drive environmental threats pertaining to biodiversi[...]Article
N. Dahbi ; L. Messaoudi |Les eaux usées sont de plus en plus utilisées par les agriculteurs des pays en développement. Cette utilisation est motivée principalement par : (a) la pénurie grandissante des ressources en eau et les tensions de plus en plus fortes sur ces res[...]Article
In Tunisia, the development of the irrigation within the water scarcity context, remains one of the crucial issues of agricultural activity. The phenomenon of climate change is likely to make the problematic while threatening the country's food [...]Article
Two thirds of human water use is linked to agricultural practices including crop irrigation. Furthermore, excess irrigation leads to drainage problems. For this reason, reduced irrigation strategies need to be implemented to protect water resour[...]