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Margarita Garcia-Vila, Rodrigo Morillo-Velarde and Elias Fereres
Process-based crop models such as AquaCrop are useful for a variety of applications but must be accurately calibrated and validated. Sugar beet is an important crop that is grown in regions under water scarcity. The discrepancies and uncertainty in past ...
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Zuhier Alakayleh, Xing Fang and T. Prabhakar Clement
This study aims at furthering our understanding of the Modified Philip?Dunne Infiltrometer (MPDI), which is used to determine the saturated hydraulic conductivity Ks and the Green?Ampt suction head ? at the wetting front. We have developed a forward-mode...
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Manuel López-Vicente and Gao-Lin Wu
This special issue includes six articles that cover a variety of issues about the topic of soil and water conservation in agricultural systems, including the following: a bibliometric analysis of soil and water conservation in the Loess Region of China; ...
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Luis Miguel Silva-Novoa Sanchez, Jeltsje Sanne Kemerink-Seyoum and Margreet Zwarteveen
Using the concept of sociotechnical tinkering, this paper provides detailed empirical observations about the everyday practices of design, construction, operation, maintenance and use of a piped water supply network in a small town in Mozambique. We use ...
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Jhon B. Valencia, Vladimir V. Guryanov, Jeison Mesa-Diez, Nilton Diaz, Daniel Escobar-Carbonari and Artyom V. Gusarov
This paper presents a hydrological assessment of the 113,981 km2 Meta River basin in Colombia using 13 global climate models to predict water yield for 2050 under two CMIP6 scenarios, SSP 4.5 and SSP 8.5. Despite mixed performance across subbasins, the m...
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Gerardo Colín-García, Enrique Palacios-Vélez, Adolfo López-Pérez, Martín Alejandro Bolaños-González, Héctor Flores-Magdaleno, Roberto Ascencio-Hernández and Enrique Inoscencio Canales-Islas
Assessing the impact of climate change is essential for developing water resource management plans, especially in areas facing severe issues regarding ecosystem service degradation. This study assessed the effects of climate change on the hydrological ba...
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Jianqin Ma, Yu Ding, Jianghui Zhang, Yungang Bai, Bifeng Cui, Xiuping Hao, Ming Zheng, Bangxin Ding and Shuoguo Yang
Determining a suitable ?dry sowing and wet emergence? water control program for cotton fields in the arid regions of Northwest China is of great significance in saving water resources, improving economic efficiency, and promoting sustainable development ...
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Kaiqi Yang, Jian Hu, Yunzhuo Ren, Zhiao Zhang, Mei Tang, Zhenkun Shang, Qing Zhen and Jiyong Zheng
The efficient use of organic amendment (OM) is considered an economic, environmental and sustainable practice to improve soil quality, especially the accumulation of organic carbon (C) and water use efficiency (WUE) in dryland agriculture. However, the e...
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Heju Huai, Qian Zhang, Zuolin Li, Lina Liang and Xiumei Tang
To reduce crop-related water consumption and enhance agricultural water resource efficiency in the Beijing?Tianjin?Hebei region, this study employed the AquaCrop model to simulate crop yield and irrigation water requirements and calculated the water scar...
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Suliman Ali Al-Khateeb, Faisal Ibrahim Zeineldin, Nagat Ahmed Elmulthum, Khalid Mohammed Al-Barrak, Muhammad Naeem Sattar, Tagelsir Ahmed Mohammad and Akbar S. Mohmand
Water scarcity has necessitated the adoption of water-saving techniques in both protected and non-protected farming. This study aimed to evaluate the performance of a water-saving soilless cultivation technique and compare it to conventional soil-based c...
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