TY - JOUR
T1 - Moving beyond ‘more crop per drop’
T2 - insights from two decades of research on agricultural water productivity
AU - Giordano, Meredith
AU - Scheierling, Susanne M.
AU - Tréguer, David O.
AU - Turral, Hugh
AU - McCornick, Peter G.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Water Partnership Program (WPP), a multi-donor trust fund at the World Bank, and the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) Research Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems (WLE) with support from CGIAR Fund Donors. This paper is joint work of the International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and the World Bank, and based on an IWMI research report (Giordano, Turral, Scheierling, Tr?guer, & McCornick, 2017) that synthesized work commissioned by the World Bank as part of a study on ?Improving Agricultural Water Productivity and Beyond: What are the Options?? (Scheierling, Tr?guer, Booker, & Decker, 2014). The authors are grateful for the valuable inputs and insights provided by numerous former and current staff of the IWMI, the World Bank, as well as other colleagues. The constructive comments and suggestions received from an editor and a reviewer on an earlier draft are also gratefully acknowledged. The findings, interpretations, and conclusions expressed in this paper do not necessarily reflect the views of the executive directors of the World Bank or the governments they represent. The World Bank does not guarantee the accuracy of the data included in this work.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021/1
Y1 - 2021/1
N2 - Concern over increasing water scarcity has led to the introduction of the concept of agricultural water productivity and an emphasis on interventions to achieve ‘more crop per drop’. Yet, a strong debate continues on how the concept is to be defined and used. Drawing largely from the irrigation literature, the origins of the concept and its methodological developments are reviewed, and its use in applied work over two decades is discussed. Based on this analysis of conceptual and applied research, key insights into the concept’s contributions and limitations are presented, as well as opportunities for further refinements.
AB - Concern over increasing water scarcity has led to the introduction of the concept of agricultural water productivity and an emphasis on interventions to achieve ‘more crop per drop’. Yet, a strong debate continues on how the concept is to be defined and used. Drawing largely from the irrigation literature, the origins of the concept and its methodological developments are reviewed, and its use in applied work over two decades is discussed. Based on this analysis of conceptual and applied research, key insights into the concept’s contributions and limitations are presented, as well as opportunities for further refinements.
KW - Irrigated agriculture
KW - agricultural water management
KW - irrigation efficiency
KW - single-factor productivity
KW - water productivity
KW - water scarcity
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U2 - 10.1080/07900627.2019.1576508
DO - 10.1080/07900627.2019.1576508
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85065194220
SN - 0790-0627
VL - 37
SP - 137
EP - 161
JO - International Journal of Water Resources Development
JF - International Journal of Water Resources Development
IS - 1
ER -