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Potential for sustainable irrigation expansion in a 3 °C warmer climate
Climate change is expected to affect crop production worldwide, particularly in rain-fed agricultural regions. It is still unknown how irrigation water needs will change in a warmer planet and where freshwater will be locally available to expand irrigation without depleting freshwater resources. Her...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7703655/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33168728 http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2017796117 |
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author | Rosa, Lorenzo Chiarelli, Davide Danilo Sangiorgio, Matteo Beltran-Peña, Areidy Aracely Rulli, Maria Cristina D’Odorico, Paolo Fung, Inez |
author_facet | Rosa, Lorenzo Chiarelli, Davide Danilo Sangiorgio, Matteo Beltran-Peña, Areidy Aracely Rulli, Maria Cristina D’Odorico, Paolo Fung, Inez |
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description | Climate change is expected to affect crop production worldwide, particularly in rain-fed agricultural regions. It is still unknown how irrigation water needs will change in a warmer planet and where freshwater will be locally available to expand irrigation without depleting freshwater resources. Here, we identify the rain-fed cropping systems that hold the greatest potential for investment in irrigation expansion because water will likely be available to suffice irrigation water demand. Using projections of renewable water availability and irrigation water demand under warming scenarios, we identify target regions where irrigation expansion may sustain crop production under climate change. Our results also show that global rain-fed croplands hold significant potential for sustainable irrigation expansion and that different irrigation strategies have different irrigation expansion potentials. Under a 3 °C warming, we find that a soft-path irrigation expansion with small monthly water storage and deficit irrigation has the potential to expand irrigated land by 70 million hectares and feed 300 million more people globally. We also find that a hard-path irrigation expansion with large annual water storage can sustainably expand irrigation up to 350 million hectares, while producing food for 1.4 billion more people globally. By identifying where irrigation can be expanded under a warmer climate, this work may serve as a starting point for investigating socioeconomic factors of irrigation expansion and may guide future research and resources toward those agricultural communities and water management institutions that will most need to adapt to climate change. |
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spelling | pubmed-77036552020-12-10 Potential for sustainable irrigation expansion in a 3 °C warmer climate Rosa, Lorenzo Chiarelli, Davide Danilo Sangiorgio, Matteo Beltran-Peña, Areidy Aracely Rulli, Maria Cristina D’Odorico, Paolo Fung, Inez Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A Physical Sciences Climate change is expected to affect crop production worldwide, particularly in rain-fed agricultural regions. It is still unknown how irrigation water needs will change in a warmer planet and where freshwater will be locally available to expand irrigation without depleting freshwater resources. Here, we identify the rain-fed cropping systems that hold the greatest potential for investment in irrigation expansion because water will likely be available to suffice irrigation water demand. Using projections of renewable water availability and irrigation water demand under warming scenarios, we identify target regions where irrigation expansion may sustain crop production under climate change. Our results also show that global rain-fed croplands hold significant potential for sustainable irrigation expansion and that different irrigation strategies have different irrigation expansion potentials. Under a 3 °C warming, we find that a soft-path irrigation expansion with small monthly water storage and deficit irrigation has the potential to expand irrigated land by 70 million hectares and feed 300 million more people globally. We also find that a hard-path irrigation expansion with large annual water storage can sustainably expand irrigation up to 350 million hectares, while producing food for 1.4 billion more people globally. By identifying where irrigation can be expanded under a warmer climate, this work may serve as a starting point for investigating socioeconomic factors of irrigation expansion and may guide future research and resources toward those agricultural communities and water management institutions that will most need to adapt to climate change. National Academy of Sciences 2020-11-24 2020-11-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7703655/ /pubmed/33168728 http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2017796117 Text en Copyright © 2020 the Author(s). Published by PNAS. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This open access article is distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License 4.0 (CC BY-NC-ND) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Physical Sciences Rosa, Lorenzo Chiarelli, Davide Danilo Sangiorgio, Matteo Beltran-Peña, Areidy Aracely Rulli, Maria Cristina D’Odorico, Paolo Fung, Inez Potential for sustainable irrigation expansion in a 3 °C warmer climate |
title | Potential for sustainable irrigation expansion in a 3 °C warmer climate |
title_full | Potential for sustainable irrigation expansion in a 3 °C warmer climate |
title_fullStr | Potential for sustainable irrigation expansion in a 3 °C warmer climate |
title_full_unstemmed | Potential for sustainable irrigation expansion in a 3 °C warmer climate |
title_short | Potential for sustainable irrigation expansion in a 3 °C warmer climate |
title_sort | potential for sustainable irrigation expansion in a 3 °c warmer climate |
topic | Physical Sciences |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7703655/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33168728 http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2017796117 |
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