In order for plants to survive, they need sun and water. Unfortunately sun will deplete readily available water for plants in arid or semi-arid climates. Water provides nutrients to a plant so it can ...
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When irrigation backfires: Global farming practices are driving heat stress and water strain, research warns
Three new high-profile studies led by Dr. Yi Yao (Vrije Universiteit Brussel and ETH Zurich) show that while irrigation may be seen as a tool to dampen heat extremes, its benefits will come with ...
Crop irrigation — watering the plants that make our food — is one of the most intensive uses of water in the world. This year, at the United Nations 2023 Water Conference, the biggest water conference ...
An international team led by UC Davis is working to connect 9,000 rural households in Guatemala with improved water management and climate-smart agriculture strategies, to increase food security and ...
U.S. farmers irrigated roughly the same amount of land as they did five years ago, but they are using less water to grow the bounty of fruits, vegetables, nuts, and grains that fill the nation’s ...
CAVALIER, N.D. -- Robert Vivatson smiles at the memory of his initial foray into irrigation in the mid 1990s. "We had a traveling gun (wheeled cart with attached sprinkler) and 40 acres of irrigated ...
Investing in irrigation technologies will make food security a more achievable goal in the decades ahead, writes Richard Colback of the International Finance Corporation.[SciDev.Net] Just six per cent ...
Today, I struggle to write. I know what I want YOU to know, and that I could show you with words how it feels to live in the farming community today. But I do not know how. I cannot find the words to ...
In the remote desert highlands of southern Yemen, a team of archaeologists have discovered new evidence of ancient transitions from hunting and herding to irrigation agriculture 5,200 years ago. In ...
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