Overview
- Provides a new approach to calculate water requirements under climate change scenarios, which was never done before in Egypt
- Explains how to quantify the effect of increasing water application efficiency and water management
- Demonstrates the effect of climate change on water requirements and production of four important crops in Egypt, which could be applicable in other countries
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Water Science and Technology (BRIEFSWATER)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book includes multi-disciplinary quantifications of the effect of climate change on water requirements of wheat, maize, rice and sugarcane. Furthermore, it provides on-farm management that faces water scarcity under current situation and under climate change. Changing cultivation method (raised beds instead of furrows or basins) or increasing irrigation application efficiency (sprinkler or drip systems instead of surface irrigation) can reduce the applied water. Irrigated agriculture, although profitable, it endures wasteful use of valuable water resources. Taking into account the risk of climate change, developing countries like Egypt will highly suffer. Furthermore, the effect of intercropping (two crops use the applied water to one of them), and/or using crop rotations (arrange crops to reduce the applied water, increase water productivity and sustain soil fertility) on production and consumed irrigation water by crops were comprehensively analyzed.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Major Crops and Water Scarcity in Egypt
Book Subtitle: Irrigation Water Management under Changing Climate
Authors: Samiha Ouda
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Water Science and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21771-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-21770-3Published: 02 September 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-21771-0Published: 24 August 2015
Series ISSN: 2194-7244
Series E-ISSN: 2194-7252
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 126
Number of Illustrations: 37 b/w illustrations, 44 illustrations in colour
Topics: Climate Change, Water Policy/Water Governance/Water Management, Climate Change Management and Policy, Agriculture