Evaluation of Soil Quality and Health Indices in Relation to Soil Physical Properties of Fedak Farm in Holly Najaf Province

AlWazzan, Taha T.; Atti, Alaa Salih

doi:10.1088/1755-1315/1060/1/012023

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“…The consumption of water in Africa and Asia is predominantly attributed to agriculture, as well as in Iraq because change climate. However, it is imperative to emphasize the significance of enhancing food production in order to safeguard public health in these regions and globally [1][2][3][4][5]. The Middle East has faced significant water scarcity in recent decades due to climate change and inadequate water resource management [6].…”

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Calculating Water Productivity Using the Portal WaPOR

Mahmoud,

Ati,

Majeed

2024

IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci.

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The task of attaining food security while simultaneously ensuring the sustainable utilization of water resources poses a significant obstacle for both present and future generations. This problem is particularly pronounced in light of escalating pressures, including economic and demographic expansion, as well as the impacts of climate change. The agricultural sector accounts for 70 percent of global freshwater withdrawals. Hence, meticulous surveillance of water productivity in agriculture enables us to ascertain the efficiency of water utilization for crop cultivation and identify strategies for its optimization, especially in regions with limited water resources. Enhancing water productivity frequently serves as the primary approach for effectively regulating water demand in the agricultural sector. Systematic monitoring facilitates the assessment of disparities in water productivity and the identification of suitable measures to address these disparities. Water productivity refers to the measure or worth of output relative to the amount of water that is utilized in a positive manner to generate said output. Water productivity in agriculture can be quantified as the ratio of crop yield to the amount of water utilized for useful purposes. The FAO portal, WaPOR, provides open access to remotely sensed and derived data for monitoring water productivity. It oversees and documents the water efficiency of agriculture in Africa and the Near East, and offers unrestricted access to the water efficiency database and its numerous underlying map layers. The system facilitates the execution of direct data queries, analysis of time series data, computation of area statistics, and retrieval of essential variables related to assessments of water and land productivity.

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