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Water management in agriculture
Project
Project code: ZALF-843
Contract period: 01.01.2014
- 31.12.2014
Budget: 131,770 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
This project aims at analysing the options and requirements
of an agricultural water management in order to reduce effects of climate
change in terms of increasingly more frequent extreme events on agriculture. In
addition, the economic evaluation of water management systems and approaches,
and the impact often increasingly more often extreme events will be assessed.
Finally, possible political consequences are derived.
The first step will be a comprehensive review of the
currently used methods of agricultural water management in Germany and their
different regional features. Technical and management parameters of the
agricultural water management systems will be described taking into account
regional features and peculiarities. To do this, the systems are systematized
in consideration of the operating principle. Using back-of-the-envelope
calculations and existing models the agricultural effects and the costs and economy
of the management systems will be quantified. The costs and the benefits of the
management systems are estimated to evaluate their efficiency, taking into
account the regional characteristics. These steps are repeated for different
climate change scenarios. Especially changes of water availability and
increasing extreme weather situations will be considered. The effects on local
economic evaluation of the various management systems will be identified and
evaluated. In a subsequent analysis of the current funding policy and of the legal
framework political consequences will be derived and presented.
Section overview
Subjects
- Crop Production
- Agricultural hydrology
- Climate Change
