Cool Farm Tool Water: A global on-line tool to assess water use in crop production.

ABSTRACT: The agricultural sector accounts for 70% of all water consumption and poses great pressure on ground water resources. Therefore, evaluating agricultural water consumption is highly important as it allows supply chain actors to identify practices which are associated with unsustainable water use, which risk depleting current water resources and impacting future production. However, these assessments are often not feasible for crop producers as data, models and experiments are required in order to conduct them. This work introduces a new on-line agricultural water use assessment tool that provides the water footprint and irrigation requirements at field scale based on an enhanced FAO56 approach combined with a global climate, crop and soil databases. This has been included in the Cool Farm T

SUBMITTER: Kayatz B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6771653 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature