Agricultural water management practices to improve the climate resilience of irrigated agriculture in India

The projected implications of climate change for water and agriculture to meet diverse and competitive water demands requires smart water management solutions. Science- and evidence-based, agricultural water management (AWM) can significantly contribute to reduce unsustainable water use and help enh...

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Main Authors: Sikka, Alok, Alam, Mohammad Faiz, Mandave, Vidya
Format: Journal Article
Language:Inglés
Published: Wiley 2022
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/119190
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author Sikka, Alok
Alam, Mohammad Faiz
Mandave, Vidya
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description The projected implications of climate change for water and agriculture to meet diverse and competitive water demands requires smart water management solutions. Science- and evidence-based, agricultural water management (AWM) can significantly contribute to reduce unsustainable water use and help enhance water resilience and adaptation to climate change. This paper presents a brief overview of potential AWM practices focusing on enhancing water resilience, increasing yields, and wherever possible, reducing emissions. This is achieved via increased land and water use efficiency, water and energy savings, and improved water productivity with considerable scope to improve agricultural resilience. In this context, the prioritization of a location-specific portfolio of smart AWM practices to make the right investment decisions is very important. We present two distinct and complementary approaches to prioritize AWM practices in this paper: one follows stakeholder analysis to build a prioritized portfolio of climate-smart AWM practices and the other employs a simple water balance-based approach to prioritize interventions. The way forward in mainstreaming and scaling out context-specific climate-smart AWM interventions is also discussed with a focus on capacity building, water management extension services, and the mobilization of resources through the convergence of institutions and co-financing from relevant development schemes.
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spelling CGSpace1191902025-10-14T15:09:09Z Agricultural water management practices to improve the climate resilience of irrigated agriculture in India Sikka, Alok Alam, Mohammad Faiz Mandave, Vidya climate-smart agriculture water management climate change resilience vulnerability irrigated farming irrigation water irrigation scheduling groundwater depletion water productivity rainwater harvesting water use water balance conservation agriculture stakeholders participatory approaches awareness capacity development extension activities The projected implications of climate change for water and agriculture to meet diverse and competitive water demands requires smart water management solutions. Science- and evidence-based, agricultural water management (AWM) can significantly contribute to reduce unsustainable water use and help enhance water resilience and adaptation to climate change. This paper presents a brief overview of potential AWM practices focusing on enhancing water resilience, increasing yields, and wherever possible, reducing emissions. This is achieved via increased land and water use efficiency, water and energy savings, and improved water productivity with considerable scope to improve agricultural resilience. In this context, the prioritization of a location-specific portfolio of smart AWM practices to make the right investment decisions is very important. We present two distinct and complementary approaches to prioritize AWM practices in this paper: one follows stakeholder analysis to build a prioritized portfolio of climate-smart AWM practices and the other employs a simple water balance-based approach to prioritize interventions. The way forward in mainstreaming and scaling out context-specific climate-smart AWM interventions is also discussed with a focus on capacity building, water management extension services, and the mobilization of resources through the convergence of institutions and co-financing from relevant development schemes. 2022-10 2022-03-31T06:02:23Z 2022-03-31T06:02:23Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/119190 en Limited Access Wiley Sikka, Alok K.; Alam, Mohammad Faiz; Mandave, Vidya. 2022. Agricultural water management practices to improve the climate resilience of irrigated agriculture in India. Irrigation and Drainage, 71(S1):7-26. (Special issue: Achieving Climate Resilience through Improved Irrigation Water Management from Farm to Basin Scale) [doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ird.2696]
spellingShingle climate-smart agriculture
water management
climate change
resilience
vulnerability
irrigated farming
irrigation water
irrigation scheduling
groundwater depletion
water productivity
rainwater harvesting
water use
water balance
conservation agriculture
stakeholders
participatory approaches
awareness
capacity development
extension activities
Sikka, Alok
Alam, Mohammad Faiz
Mandave, Vidya
Agricultural water management practices to improve the climate resilience of irrigated agriculture in India
title Agricultural water management practices to improve the climate resilience of irrigated agriculture in India
title_full Agricultural water management practices to improve the climate resilience of irrigated agriculture in India
title_fullStr Agricultural water management practices to improve the climate resilience of irrigated agriculture in India
title_full_unstemmed Agricultural water management practices to improve the climate resilience of irrigated agriculture in India
title_short Agricultural water management practices to improve the climate resilience of irrigated agriculture in India
title_sort agricultural water management practices to improve the climate resilience of irrigated agriculture in india
topic climate-smart agriculture
water management
climate change
resilience
vulnerability
irrigated farming
irrigation water
irrigation scheduling
groundwater depletion
water productivity
rainwater harvesting
water use
water balance
conservation agriculture
stakeholders
participatory approaches
awareness
capacity development
extension activities
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