Geospatial decision support system for ameliorating adverse impacts of irrigated agriculture on aquatic ecosystems

Fields, Christopher M.; Labadie, John W.; Rohmat, Faizal Immaddudin Wira; Johnson, Lynn E.

doi:10.1016/j.agwat.2021.106877

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“…Against this background and taking into account the inherent relationship between water and land use, agriculture plays a key role in the global task of guaranteeing water supply from a sustainability perspective [13][14][15][16]. The importance of agriculture in meeting the demand of an evergrowing population relies on the search for and implementation of a successful, lasting and sustainable water source to irrigate crops [17]. Moreover, this irrigation alternative should be able to ensure economic, environmental and social development [18].…”

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Farmers’ Attitudes towards Irrigating Crops with Reclaimed Water in the Framework of a Circular Economy

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In a global situation where water constraints are a daily concern and expected to worsen in the upcoming years, finding new water alternatives to guarantee its supply is of critical importance. Against this background, reclaimed water has proved to be a sustainable alternative that recycles wastewater from a circular economy approach, thus enhancing water availability for key sectors such as agriculture. In such a context where public policies should encourage the implementation of this sustainable resource that helps reduce climate change by allowing wastewater reuse, there is too often a lack of knowledge of farmers’ perceptions, thus resulting in them being ineffective. In this sense, studying and analyzing agriculturalists’ perceptions is of interest for the development of appropriate policies that truly foster reclaimed water use in agriculture and enhance its shift from waste to resource. For this research 231 farmers, both long-time users of reclaimed water and non-users, were surveyed to find common and differing attitudes and perceptions. Results show how once farmers start irrigating their crops with this alternative resource there is a marked improvement in their opinion. The high price is the most widespread barrier, which can be tempered with public subsidies that absorb part of this cost. The insights obtained from this research may be of interest to other regions, especially for those in arid and semi-arid climates where water scarcity is a critical problem and sustainability a growing concern.

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“…Considering this, and because of the natural relationship between water and land use, agriculture plays a critical part in the worldwide job of ensuring sustainable water supply [13]- [16]. The quest for the implementation of a successful, long-lasting, and sustainable water source to irrigate crops is critical to agriculture satisfying the need of an ever-growing population [17]. This irrigation option should also be capable of ensuring economic, environmental, and social development [18].…”

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Holistic Approach to the Economic Benefits of Using Reclaimed Water in Agriculture

SERRANO

2022

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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Implementing water alternatives to ensure its supply is crucial in a worldwide context where water scarcity is a daily problem that is anticipated to intensify in the upcoming years. In this context, reclaimed water has proved to be a viable option for ensuring water availability for such a waterdemanding and critical sector as agriculture is. Nevertheless, its use is too often seen as a last-resource alternative desired mainly by farmers facing water scarcity or a lack of water alternatives. Despite the pressing need to look for reasons that justify the profitability of its implementation over other water alternatives, and in light of there being gap research when analyzing all the benefits of using reclaimed water from a holistic economic approach, the overall objective of this study is to evaluate the economic impact generated by the use of tertiary water in agriculture to irrigate crops. To reach this ambitious objective, the economic value of a large list of positive externalities derived from the implementation of reclaimed water in agriculture is going to be calculated. Some of the aspects that are going to be evaluated are: its fertilizer value affecting crop productivity, soil quality and plant growth and its capacity of being a source of organic carbon. Furthermore, these others relevant aspects that too often go unnoticed due to the difficulty in their measurement are going to be evaluated: its contribution to protect water bodies and promote water resources quality and recovery, its capacity of enhancing and boosting marine ecosystem services and its leverage effect in promoting agriculture in new areas and in fostering different crop varieties in other areas where, because of salinity levels or water scarcity, only some crop varieties may be grown. Results will show through economic data and results the urge of implementing reclaimed water in agriculture worldwide.

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Irrigation with Artificial Intelligence: Problems, Premises, Promises

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Xu,

Kang

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Hum-Cent Intell Syst

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Protagonists allege that artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionising contemporaneous mindscapes. Here, we authoritatively review the status quo of AI and machine learning application in irrigated agriculture, evaluating the potential of, and challenges associated with, a wide range of existential AI approaches. We contend that aspiring developers of AI irrigation systems may benefit from human-centred AI, a nascent algorithm that captures diverse end-user views, behaviours and actions, potentially facilitating refinement of proposed systems through iterative stakeholder feedback. AI-guided human–machine collaboration can streamline integration of user needs, allowing customisation towards situational farm management adaptation. Presentation of big data in intuitive, legible and actionable forms for specialists and laypeople also urgently requires attention: here, AI-explainable interpretability may help harness human expertise, enabling end-users to contribute their experience within an AI pipeline for bespoke outputs. Transfer learning holds promise in contextualising place-based AI to agroecological regions, production systems or enterprise mixes, even with limited data inputs. We find that the rate of AI scientific and software development in recent times has outpaced the evolution of adequate legal and institutional regulations, and often social, moral and ethical license to operate, revealing consumer issues associated with data ownership, legitimacy and trust. We opine that AI has great potential to elicit sustainable outcomes in food security, social innovation and environmental stewardship, albeit such potential is more likely to be realised through concurrent development of appropriate ethical, moral and legal dimensions.

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Geospatial decision support system for ameliorating adverse impacts of irrigated agriculture on aquatic ecosystems

Cited by 6 publications

References 83 publications

Farmers’ Attitudes towards Irrigating Crops with Reclaimed Water in the Framework of a Circular Economy

Farmers’ Attitudes towards Irrigating Crops with Reclaimed Water in the Framework of a Circular Economy

Holistic Approach to the Economic Benefits of Using Reclaimed Water in Agriculture

Irrigation with Artificial Intelligence: Problems, Premises, Promises

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