A5033429910- Irrigation Practices and Water Management
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Water resources management and optimization
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
- Water Systems and Optimization
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control
- Soil and Unsaturated Flow
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Climate variability and models
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Wastewater Treatment and Reuse
- Plant responses to elevated CO2
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Hydrological Forecasting Using AI
- Hydrology and Drought Analysis
- Sustainable Agricultural Systems Analysis
- Sugarcane Cultivation and Processing
University of California, Davis
2017-2025
Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection
2023
National Research Council
2023
University of California, Berkeley
2019
International Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies
2006-2016
Istituto Agronomico Mediterraneo di Bari
2016
Cranfield University
2009-2015
CMCC Foundation - Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change
2015
Polytechnic University of Bari
2009
Lebanese University
2006
Climate change is a serious threat to crop productivity in regions that are already food insecure. We assessed the projected impacts of climate on yield eight major crops Africa and South Asia using systematic review meta-analysis data 52 original publications from an initial screen 1144 studies. Here we show mean all − 8% by 2050s both regions. Across Africa, changes 17% (wheat), 5% (maize), 15% (sorghum) 10% (millet) across 16% (maize) 11% were estimated. No was detected for rice. The...
Climate change is expected to modify rainfall, temperature and catchment hydrological responses across the world, adapting these water-related changes a pressing challenge. This paper reviews impact of anthropogenic climate on water in UK looks at projections future change. The natural variability makes hard detect; only historical increases air can be attributed forcing, but over last 50 years more winter rainfall has been falling intense events. Future evapotranspiration could lead changed...
Irrigated agriculture constitutes the largest consumer of freshwater in Mediterranean region and provides a major source income employment for rural livelihoods. However, increasing droughts water scarcity have highlighted concerns regarding environmental sustainability region. An integrated assessment combining gridded balance model with geodatabase GIS has been developed used to assess demand energy footprint irrigated production Modelled outputs were linked crop yield resources data...
Soil structure is a key attribute of soil quality and health that significantly impacts water infiltration. Structure can be altered by natural or anthropogenic drivers including management practices in turn impact Those changes are often complex to quantify lead conflicting on infiltration into soils. Here, we present narrative systematic review (SR) the Based inclusion exclusion criteria, as well defined methods for literature search data extraction, our led total 153 papers divided two...
Future changes in temperature, rainfall and soil moisture could threaten agricultural land use crop productivity Europe, with major consequences for food security. We assessed the projected impacts of climate change on yield seven types (viz wheat, barley, maize, potato, sugar beet, rice rye) grown Europe using a systematic review (SR) meta-analysis data reported 41 original publications from an initial screening 1748 studies. Our approach adopted established SR procedure developed by Centre...
Globally, the area of sugarcane is rising rapidly in response to growing demands for bioethanol and increased sugar demand human consumption. Despite considerable diversity production systems contexts, a particularly "high impact" crop with significant positive negative environmental socio-economic impacts. Our analysis focused on Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), which critical region continued expansion, due its high potential, low cost proximity, access, European markets. Drawing systematic...
SUMMARY The viability of commercial potato production is influenced by spatial and temporal variability in soils agroclimate, the availability water resources where supplementary irrigation required. Soil characteristics agroclimatic conditions greatly influence cultivar choice, agronomic husbandry practices economics production. Using latest (UKCP09) scenarios climate change for UK, present paper describes a methodology using pedo-climatic functions geographical information system (GIS) to...
Dwindling water supplies, increasing drought frequency and uncertainties associated with a changing climate mean Europe's irrigated agriculture sector needs to improve efficiency produce more 'crop per drop'. This paper summarizes the drivers for change, constraints opportunities improving agricultural management through uptake of precision irrigation technologies. A multi-disciplinary integrated approach involving engineers, soil scientists, agronomists plant physiologists will be needed if...
Irrigation is an essential component of crop production to meet retailer demands for premium quality when rainfall insufficient. Under drought conditions, irrigation can be constrained by water resources availability, with consequent impacts on yield, and revenue. Whilst most agriculture in Europe rainfed, greater dependence supplemental could become more important humid environments due a changing climate uncertainty higher frequency droughts. By combining industry farm level economic data,...
Precision irrigation technologies are being widely promoted to resolve challenges regarding improving crop productivity under conditions of increasing water scarcity. In this paper, the development an integrated modelling approach involving coupling a application model with biophysical simulation (Aquacrop) evaluate in-field impacts precision on yield and soil management is described. The allows for comparison between conventional practices against range alternate so-called 'precision...
Multispectral imaging using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) has changed the pace of precision agriculture. Actual evapotranspiration (ETa) from very high spatial resolution UAV images over agricultural fields can help farmers increase their production at lowest possible cost. ETa estimation UAVs requires a full package sensors capturing visible/infrared and thermal portions spectrum. Therefore, this study focused on multi-sensor data fusion approach for (MSDF-ET) independent sensors. The...
Irrigation is the most significant consumer of freshwater worldwide. Deciding on right amount irrigation crucial for sustainable water management and food production. The Penman-Monteith (P-M) reference crop evapotranspiration (ETO) gold standard in scheduling; however, its calculation requires measurements from multiple sensors over an extended grass surface. cost land, sensors, maintenance, to keep surface green impedes having a dense network ETO stations. To solve this challenge, research...