H13S:
Water for Food: Enhancing Food Security in the Developing World Through Improved Agricultural Water Management I Posters


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Session ID#: 51661

Session Description:
Food security is a challenging issue emerging in socioeconomic development of human society. Although significant progress has been made in past few decades, there are still prevalent hunger and malnutrition in developing world. Improved agricultural water management could serve as a key element in solutions to address the challenge. In Sub-Saharan Africa, crop production is predominantly rainfed and is thus vulnerable to precipitation variability. Expanding irrigation is widely perceived as an important means to boost agricultural production in the region. In South Asia, intensive irrigation has acted as a pillar to support green revolution in South Asian countries, but also created concerns about sustainability of water resources and the irrigated agriculture, which need to be addressed through improved management practices. This session is designed to discuss recent research on agricultural water management, which generates new insight to inform national or regional food policy making in developing countries.
Primary Convener:  Hua Xie, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC, United States
Conveners:  Raghavan Srinivasan, Texas A&M University, Director of Spatial Sciences Laboratory, Agrilife Research, College Station, United States, Marc A Jeuland, Duke University, Sanford School of Public Policy, Durham, NC, United States and Liangzhi You, International Food Policy Research Institute, Dakar, Senegal
Primary Liaison:  Hua Xie, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC, United States
Chairs:  Hua Xie, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC, United States and Liangzhi You, International Food Policy Research Institute, Dakar, Senegal
OSPA Liaison:  Hua Xie, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • SI - Societal Impacts and Policy Sciences
Index Terms:

1842 Irrigation [HYDROLOGY]
1880 Water management [HYDROLOGY]
6319 Institutions [POLICY SCIENCES]
6334 Regional planning [POLICY SCIENCES]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Water resources conservation and nitrogen pollution reduction under global food trade and agricultural intensification (367729)
Hong Yang and Wenfeng Liu, EAWAG Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Duebendorf, Switzerland
Evaluation of climate change and salinization impacts on water demand for irrigation. Case study in the Zeravshan River Basin. (411005)
Temur Khujanazarov, Kyoto University, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto, Japan, Yoshiya Touge, Kyoto University, Disaster Prevention Research Insitute, Kyoto, Japan, Kenji Tanaka, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, Kristina Toderich, International Center for Biosaline Agriculture for Central Asia and Caucasus (ICBA-CAC), Tashkent, Uzbekistan and Shigenobu Tanaka, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Uji, Japan
Opportunity to invest in dry-season small-scale irrigation to enhance food security in Sub-Saharan Africa: Case studies in Ethiopia, Ghana and Tanzania (420909)
Liangzhi You, International Food Policy Research Institute, Dakar, Senegal, Hua Xie, International Policy Research Institute, Washington DC, United States, Abeyou Wale Worqlul, Blackland Research Center, Texas A&M AgriLife Research, Temple, TX, United States, Jean-Claude Bizimana, Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, United States and Raghavan Srinivasan, Texas A&M University, Director of Spatial Sciences Laboratory, Agrilife Research, College Station, United States
Water Use Efficiency in Groundwater Irrigated Agricultural Plots in Semi-Arid Region: New Methodology Combining Models and In-situ Measurements. (429939)
Deepti B Upadhyaya, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, Sekhar Muddu, Indian Institute of Science, Department of Civil Engineering, Interdisciplinary Centre for Water Research, Bangalore, India, Sudhakar M Rao Sr, IISC, Civil Engineering Department, Bengaluru, India and Laurent Ruiz, Indian Institute of Science, Indo-French Cell for Water Sciences, Bangalore, India
China’s Food Security under Climate Change Impact: A Multi-Sector Computable General Equilibrium Assessment (460023)
Xiaolin Guo1, Yang Hong2, Mun Sing Ho3, Liangzhi You4 and Jing Cao1, (1)Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, (2)University of Oklahoma, School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science, Norman, United States, (3)Harvard University, Cambridge, United States, (4)International Food Policy Research Institute, Dakar, Senegal

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