Essays about: "CROPWAT"

Found 5 essays containing the word CROPWAT.

  1. 1. Water management for agriculture under a changing climate: case study of Nyagatare watershed in Rwanda

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Madeleine Green; [2019]
    Keywords : climate change; hydrological model; SWAT; CROPWAT; Nyagatare; Rwanda; marshland; watershed; climate model; irrigation; rice crop;

    Abstract : Sub-Saharan Africa is today facing a big challenge regarding food deficiency and water scarcity due to climate change. One of these countries is Rwanda, a small landlocked country in the middle of Africa. Rwanda strongly depend on agriculture, both in the aspect of reducing poverty and hunger but also because their economy security depend on it. READ MORE

  3. 2. The impacts of global warming and diet change on the virtual water consumption:  Estimating the present and future invisible virtual water resource use in East Africa

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Stockholm Resilience Centre

    Author : Julius Fröhlich; [2017]
    Keywords : water consumption; East Africa; CROPWAT; CLIMWAT;

    Abstract : The production of food is the biggest water consumer and it is required to meet the growing demand of food from a growing population and changing diets. Water can be dislocated indirectly in its hidden virtual form in traded food products as the water that is needed to produce the product locally. READ MORE

  4. 3. DESIGN, OPTIMIZATION AND ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF PHOTOVOLTAIC WATER PUMPING TECHNOLOGIES, CASE RWANDA

    University essay from Mälardalens högskola/Akademin för ekonomi, samhälle och teknik

    Author : Pie Basalike; [2015]
    Keywords : Photovoltaic system; storages medium; pumping system; economic analysis; reduction in CO2 emissions;

    Abstract : Today agriculture sector has a big contribution to the development of economy for many countries. Irrigation is a method which supplies amount of water required in proper time to the cropped land and contributes to the increases of agriculture productivity. READ MORE

  5. 4. The water footprint of winter wheat in Sweden

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Teknisk vattenresurslära

    Author : Henrik Sundberg; [2012]
    Keywords : macaroni; Lantmännen; wheat flour; liquid fuel ethanol; winter wheat; Water footprint; Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : This study attempts to calculate the green blue and gray water footprint of the crop production of winter wheat and three derived winter wheat products: liquid fuel ethanol, wheat flour and macaroni. The calculations were done for Sweden for the period 2008-2010, covering an average of 80% of the annual winter wheat production. READ MORE

  6. 5. Climate change impacts on crop yields and adaptive measures for agricultural sector in the lowlands of Lesotho

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

    Author : Maoela Malebajoa; [2010]
    Keywords : climate change; A2 and B2 SRES; MAGICC SCENGEN; CROPWAT; Crop Yields; adaptive measures; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Summary: Climate change has emerged as the most outstanding of the environmental challenges and there is a necessity to evaluate its impacts on the vulnerable development sectors such as agriculture. In this study, spatially adjusted general circulation models and crop models were used to simulate climate change scenarios and the associated cereal crops yields for the western lowlands of Lesotho for the year 2030-2050 and 2080-2100. READ MORE