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Scarcity of water has emerged as a major problem globally due to climate change and population growth, especially in semi-arid and arid regions. Egypt is currently experiencing serious water challenges due to its limited water resources. The wat[...]Article
F. Chemak ; H. Mazhoud ; Z. Rached ; A. Gara ; R. Rahmeni ; H. Ghannem |In Tunisia, the development of the irrigated cereal sector plays a key role in the mitigation of the fluctuation of the rainfed production and to ensure a minimum of production. However, the archived yields remain under the expected potential pe[...]Article
Potato crops are one of the main sources of income for farmers living in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon. Given the high sensitivity of potatoes to water stress, water shortages can cause considerable losses in terms of potato yield and quality. To [...]Article
N. Beithou ; A. Qandil ; M.B. Khalid ; J. Horvatinec ; G. Ondrasek |Food security is an essential issue for human survival and civilization. Whenever food–water security is in doubt, the community is negatively affected. Globally, Jordan is the second most water-stressed country, located in an arid, politi[...]Article
Meteorological drought is defined as the event that arises when precipitation is lower than average and initially affects rainfed crops; this is transformed into hydrological drought when persistent drought affects water storage. We have studied[...]Article
Z.M. Nigatu ; D. Fan ; W. You ; A.M. Melesse ; L. Pu ; X. Yang ; X. Wan ; Z. Jiang |Soil moisture (SM) and groundwater (GW) depletion triggered by anthropogenic and natural climate change are influencing food security via crop production per capita decrease in the Nile River Basin (NRB). However, to the best of our understandin[...]Article
Irrigated agriculture accounts for ∼90% of anthropogenic freshwater consumption, is deployed on 22% of cultivated land, and provides 40% of global food production. Expanding irrigation onto currently underperforming rainfed croplands is cr[...]Article
Coastal wetlands are among the most productive and valuable ecosystems worldwide, although one of the main factors affecting their survival is the coexistence between agriculture and conservation. This paper analyses the complex balance between [...]Article
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S. Mohammed ; A. Elbeltagi ; B. Bashir ; K. Alsafadi ; F. Alsilibe ; A. Alsalman ; M. Zeraatpisheh ; A. Széles ; E. Harsányi |Drought is a natural hazard which affects ecosystems in the eastern Mediterranean. However, limited historical data for drought monitoring and forecasting are available in the eastern Mediterranean. Thus, implementing machine learning (ML) algor[...]Article
Assessment of groundwater contamination is an efficient means to discover and carry out the demarcation of the more vulnerable zones to pollution from human activities. This study is focused on the plain of El Asnam (Northern Algeria) characteri[...]Article
Water is the most limiting natural resource in many Mediterranean areas of southern Europe, and this, together with the actual scenario of climate change (CC), promotes a framework of uncertainty and creates major challenges concerning the susta[...]Article
Global scenario-based modelling efforts to support biodiversity policies typically consider agriculture only as a pressure factor. Current scenarios typically include the expansion of protected areas combined with higher agricultural productivit[...]Article
The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic had a great impact on the agricultural sector, especially in developing countries. In particular, it caused exceptional challenges to small and local-scale farmers. Field questionnaires and interv[...]Article
S. Camposeo ; G.A. Vivaldi ; G. Russo ; F.M. Melucci |The relationship between agriculture and climate change is gaining prominence year by year in due to both adaptation and mitigation issues, because agriculture contributes to carbon emissions and acts as a carbon sink. Innovation on olive growin[...]Article
A. Mayer ; C. Egger ; A. Loyau ; C. Plutzar ; D.S. Schmeller ; V. Gaube |Mountain pastures are embedded in highly sensitive mountain ecosystems and provide forage for livestock during summer. In years when forage in the lowlands becomes scarce due to over-grazing and land degradation, or climate-related extreme event[...]Article
Groundwater forms the basis for millions of rural and urban livelihoods in the Global South. Its use for irrigation has spurred widespread socio-economic development in various areas but has also led to aquifer overdraft and related socio-enviro[...]Article
Spain is the country with the most biosphere reserves (BRs) in the world. The aim of this paper is to investigate why BRs have come to proliferate to such a degree in Spain and why there is a gap between UNESCOs framework and the practicalities[...]Article
N.H. Ajroudi ; B. Dhehibi ; A. Lasram ; H. Dellagi ; A. Frija |This study aims to analyse Tunisian farmers ability to pay (ATP) in a citrus area and propose a penalising price strategy based on the block-pricing process to decrease over-irrigation without affecting farmers incomes. The methodology is base[...]Article
A. Chebil ; R. Soula ; A. Souissi ; B. Bennouna |This study examines the effects of irrigation water use efficiency improvements and citrus price fluctuations on water values in the tree production systems of northeastern Tunisia. It also aims to compare water values with the real price of wat[...]Article
J. Wang ; M. Bretz ; M.A.A. Dewan ; M.A. Delavar |Land-use and land-cover change (LULCC) are of importance in natural resource management, environmental modelling and assessment, and agricultural production management. However, LULCC detection and modelling is a complex, data-driven process in [...]Article
A. Pollo ; I. Piccini ; J. Chiara ; E. Porro ; D. Chiantore ; F. Gili ; R. Alba ; A. Barbi ; G. Bogliani ; M. Bagliani ; A. Doretto ; C. Ruffino ; E. Malenotti ; A. Garazzino ; R. Pelosini ; C. Siniscalco ; S. Bonelli |Since climate change impacts are already occurring, urgent adaptive actions are necessary to avoid the worst damages. Regional authorities play an important role in adaptation, but they have few binding guidelines to carry out strategies and pla[...]Article
M.A. Abdeladhim ; L. Fleskens ; J. Baartman ; M. Sghaier ; M. Ouessar ; C. Ritsema |Water harvesting techniques (WHTs) are important climate change adaptation measures to better manage rainwater for domestic and agricultural purposes, but which WHT to plan where is subject to sustainability considerations. Moreover, suitability[...]Article
Areas where there is a scarcity of water frequently experience significant drought periods, which may become exacerbated in the future due to climate change. In this paper we propose a novel and integrated method for a semi-distributed analysis [...]Article
A. Finco ; D. Bentivoglio ; G. Chiaraluce ; M. Alberi ; E. Chiarelli ; A. Maino ; F. Mantovani ; M. Montuschi ; K.G. Raptis ; F. Semenza ; V. Strati ; F. Vurro ; E. Marchetti ; Manuele Bettelli ; M. Janni ; E. Anceschi ; C. Sportolaro ; G. Bucci |The scarcity of water due to climate change is endangering worldwide the production, quality, and economic viability of growing wine grapes. One of the main mitigation measures to be adopted in the viticulture sector will be an adequate irrigati[...]Article
Accurate information about the irrigated surface is essential to help assess the impact of irrigation on water consumption, the hydrological cycle and regional climate. In this study, we compare recently developed operational and spatially trans[...]Article
Considering the importance of rainfed agriculture in adaptation to nature and long-term sustainability in the human food supply and livelihood of farmers, the main purpose of this study is to investigate the potential of rainfed agriculture in t[...]Article
Le changement climatique et son cortège de sécheresses rapprochées renforcent le rôle de lirrigation dans lagriculture des pays tempérés. Elle est même déjà, en zone méditerranéenne, lunique solution pour maintenir des productions agricoles. [...]Article
Water scarcity is a serious problem across many nations. In recent years, water scarcity has increased due to land-use and climate change, particularly in areas that are arid or semi-arid, like, for instance, Iran. While land-use changes influen[...]