Elsevier Water Productivity and Food Security: Global Trends and Regional Patterns: Volume 3 (Current Directions in Water Scarcity Research, Volume 3)

Water Productivity and Food Security: Global Trends and Regional Patterns, Volume Three reviews the need for water productivity improvements in agriculture, addressing three distinct questions pertaining to agricultural water productivity improvement in developing countries, including what are the regions where water is a limiting factor for raising agricultural outputs and water productivity improvements, what are the technological measures in irrigation that can raise agricultural water productivity and result in water saving at various scales, and what opportunities exist in the developing economies of South Asia and Africa for raising water productivity and improving water economy at basin scale. This book provides a framework to characterize river basins based on water availability, water supplies, water uses and water demands to ascertain the need and measures available for improving crop water productivity that would be effective at various scales, i.e., plant-level, plot-level, irrigation system level and basin level. This is an essential reference for anyone interested in water management and agriculture. Review A comprehensive and interdisciplinary refence on global and regional trends in agricultural water productivity in developing countries From the Back Cover Water Productivity and Food Security: Global Trends and Regional Patterns reviews the needs for water productivity improvements in agriculture. It addresses three distinct questions pertaining to agricultural water productivity improvement in developing countries. They are: i) which are the regions where water is a limiting factor for raising agricultural outputs and water productivity improvements is necessary for enhancing them to prevent additional environmental water stress; ii) what are the technological measures in irrigation that can raise agricultural water productivity and result in water saving at various scales, from plant to plot to farm to scheme to river basin under different basin conditions, and under what condition they help conserve water resources, and, iii) in the developing economies of South Asia and Africa, what opportunities really exist for raising water productivity and improving water economy at basin scale, without compromising on resilience of the farming systems, food security and employment generation in the farm sector? Water Productivity and Food Security: Global Trends and Regional Patterns provides a framework to characterize river basins based on water availability, water supplies, water uses and water demands to ascertain the need and measures available for improving crop water productivity that would be effective at various scales, i.e., plant-level, plot-level, irrigation system level and basin level. This is an essential reference for anyone interested in water management and agriculture/ food security. About the Author M. Dinesh Kumar received his Ph. D in Water Management in 2006. He has 24 years of professional experience in the field of water resources. He is currently the Executive Director of Institute for Resource Analysis and Policy in Hyderabad. He has nearly 150 publications to his credit, including books from internationally renowned publishers, book chapters, many articles in peer reviewed international journals, research monographs and conference papers. He has authored five books and is the lead editor of two edited volumes. He has published extensively in many international peer reviewed journals, such as Water Policy, Energy Policy, Food Security, Water International, Journal of Hydrology, Water Resources Management and Resources, Energy and Development. He is currently also Associate Editor of Water Policy, and Member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of Water Resources Development.