Jerry W. Knox 
Improving water management in agriculture [EPUB ebook] 
Irrigation and food production

Part 1 Current and future water demands for agriculture

• 1. Reconciling water needs for food, the environment, energy and society – a quadrilemma facing the future of global irrigated agriculture: Jerry W. Knox, Cranfield University, UK;


• 2. Monitoring agricultural water use: challenges and solutions for sustainable water management: T. Foster, University of Manchester, UK; C. D. Pérez-Blanco, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain; and G. Schmidt, Fresh Thoughts Consulting, Austria;


• 3. Forecasting future global agricultural water demand: current projections and future challenges: Upali A. Amarasinghe and Giriraj Amaranath, International Water Management Institute, Sri Lanka; and Alok Sikka, International Water Management Institute, India;

Part 2 Improving agricultural water management practices

• 4. Agronomic practices for optimising soil water retention: Samuel I. Haruna, Middle Tennessee State University, USA; and Stephen H. Anderson, University of Missouri, USA;


• 5. Advances in drainage design and management for irrigated agriculture: Henk Ritzema, Wageningen University, The Netherlands;


• 6. Crop physiological responses to irrigation and regulatory mechanisms: Ian C. Dodd, Lancaster University, UK; Katharina Huntenburg, Wageningen University and Research, The Netherlands; and Juan Gabriel Pérez-Pérez, Valencian Institute of Agricultural Research, Spain;


• 7. Managing energy demands in irrigated agriculture: J. A. Rodríguez Díaz, A. Mérida García, R. González Perea and I. Fernández García, University of Córdoba, Spain;


• 8. Solar-powered irrigation systems: recent developments and future trends: Muhammad Arif Watto, CSIRO Environment Business Unit, Australia; Maria Shabir, University of Foggia, Italy; Ali Sher, School of Management, Guangzhou University, China; and Muhammad Awais Ali Khan, Independent Researcher, UK;

Part 3 Improving water resources allocation and management

• 9. Advances in farmer-led irrigation development in Africa: Phil Woodhouse, University of Manchester, UK;


• 10. Managing the irrigation efficiency paradox to “free” water for the environment: Bruce Lankford, University of East Anglia, UK; and Matthew Mc Cartney, International Water Management Institute, Sri Lanka;


• 11. Developments in water sharing and water trading: Juliane Haensch, University of Göttingen, Germany; and Sarah Ann Wheeler, University of Adelaide, Australia;


• 12. Modernizing major and medium irrigation schemes in India: formulating a programme of change: Martin Burton, Water Resources and Irrigation Management, UK; M. G. Shivakumar, Asian Development Bank; India; Rahul Sen, Water Resources Policy and Institutions, India; Kuppannan Palanisami, International Water Management Institute, India; and Lance Gore, Asian Development Bank, The Philippines;

Part 4 Addressing future water and climate risks

• 13. PRECIMED: development of a decision support system (DSS) for precision irrigation in Mediterranean agriculture: María F. Ortuño, Andrés Parra, Juan J. Alarcón and María J. Gómez-Bellot, Centro de Edafología y Biología Aplicada del Segura (CEBAS-CSIC), Spain; Antonio Skarmeta, Manuel Mora and Rafael Marín, Odin Solutions S.L. (ODINs), Spain; Nikolaos Katsoulas, Sofia Faliagka and Dimitris K. Papanastasiou, University of Thessaly (UTH), Greece; Mohammed Semiani, Farouk Eddine Belkhiri and Smadhi Dalila, National Institute of Agronomic Research of Algeria (INRAA), Algeria; and Khouloud Boukadi, Rima Grati and Bassem Bouaziz, University of Sfax (OPTIM), Tunisia;


• 14. Integrating biophysical and hydraulic models to assess the agronomic and environmental impacts of precision irrigation: A. Daccache, University of California, USA; and J. W. Knox and T. M. Hess, Cranfield University, UK;


• 15. Managing the impacts of climate change, droughts and water scarcity on agriculture: Ray-Shyan Wu, National Central University, Taiwan; and Fiaz Hussain, PMAS-Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan;


• 16. The water–energy–food nexus (WEF): Oscar Melo, Sadurní Vendrell and William Foster, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile;

María Fernanda Ortuño Gallud received her degree in Agricultural Engineering from Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain, in 2000 and her Ph D degree in Chemistry from the University of Murcia, Spain, in 2004. Currently she is Tenured Scientist at CSIC (since 2011). She is member of the Irrigation Department of CEBAS-CSIC.