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Sustainable Crop Management and Water Footprint

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Water Management".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2022) | Viewed by 5684

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Daowei Sun

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New South Wales Department of Primary Industries, Australian Cotton Research Institute, Narrabri, NSW 2390, Australia
Interests: sustainability of natural and rural systems; water productivity and sustainability; climate change impacts on agricultural systems; agricultural innovation adoption; application of systems approaches (systems thinking and system dynamics) to address complex issues of the rural and agricultural sectors
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

You are invited to contribute to the Special Issue of Sustainability that is focused on sustainable crop management and water footprints.

Water has become one of the most limiting resources for crop production. The water footprint is an indicator that covers both direct and indirect water use in products or production processes. Research on water footprints of different cropping systems not only informs further improvements in water use efficiency and water productivity but also facilitates sustainable cropping industries. This Special Issue of Sustainability is intended to serve as a platform for sharing research findings and insights into any of the following topics:

  • Water footprint accounts of different cropping systems
  • Strategies, practices, and techniques to reduce water footprints of different cropping systems
  • Insights of managing cropping systems to reduce water footprints in different cropping systems
  • Using water footprints to inform sustainable crop management
  • Using water footprints to facilitate further improvements in water productivity and water use efficiency
  • The dynamics interactions between water footprints, water productivity, and water use efficiency in cropping systems
  • The social, economic, and environmental implications of all the abovementioned aspects

Contributions of either theoretical or empirical research are welcomed. Contributions on topics other than those mentioned above but that are closely related to sustainable crop management and water footprints are also of interest.

Dr. Daowei Sun
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • sustainable agriculture
  • sustainable crop management
  • water footprint
  • water productivity
  • water use efficiency
  • agricultural water management
  • irrigated cropping systems
  • rainfed/dryland cropping systems
  • agricultural resource management

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Spatial Pattern of Water Footprints for Crop Production in Northeast China
by Zhihui Li, Haowei Wu and Xiangzheng Deng
Sustainability 2022, 14(20), 13649; https://doi.org/10.3390/su142013649 - 21 Oct 2022
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Water is an important resource for crop production; identifying the spatial pattern of the crop water footprint (WF) is of great significance for the optimization of water resource consumption and management in agricultural production. This study quantified the green, blue and grey water [...] Read more.
Water is an important resource for crop production; identifying the spatial pattern of the crop water footprint (WF) is of great significance for the optimization of water resource consumption and management in agricultural production. This study quantified the green, blue and grey water footprints (GWF, BWF and GRWF) and water consumption (GWC, BWC and GRWC) of rice, maize and soybean at the 1 km grid level and city level in Northeast China in 2019 based on the CROPWAT 8.0 model. The results showed that the average total water footprints of rice (TWFr), maize (TWFm) and soybean (TWFs) were 624.31 m3·ton−1, 527.26 m3·ton−1 and 1298.21 m3·ton−1, respectively. The spatial differences in the WF of each crop were obvious in Northeast China, with the highest values of TWFr mainly occurring in Baicheng, Dalian and Qitaihe; the highest TWFm values were mainly found in Baicheng, Yingkou and Hulundao, and the highest TWFs were mainly found in Baicheng, Chifeng and Tongliao. The total water consumption of all three crops (TWCc) in Northeast China was 94 billion m3·yr−1 (42% green, 26% blue and 32% grey), in which the total water consumption of maize production (TWCm) accounted for 60%. The production of rice, maize and soybean in Northeast China mainly depends on green water, grey water and blue water, respectively. Combining the results of the spatial patterns of crop TWF and TWC, the study revealed that the planting pattern of crops in Northeast China was relatively reasonable for sustainable water use. Meanwhile, cities that have the potential to enhance crop production and cities that should improve their water use efficiency and reduce fertilizer application were also identified. Full article
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An Analysis of Water Use Efficiency of Staple Grain Productions in China: Based on the Crop Water Footprints at Provincial Level
by Aizhi Yu, Entai Cai, Min Yang and Zhishan Li
Sustainability 2022, 14(11), 6682; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14116682 - 30 May 2022
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This article analyzed the water use efficiency of China’s staple grain productions (maize, rice, and wheat). This research calculated the water footprints of crop production using the CROPWAT model based on reported water use in 2000 and during 2015–2019, and both green and [...] Read more.
This article analyzed the water use efficiency of China’s staple grain productions (maize, rice, and wheat). This research calculated the water footprints of crop production using the CROPWAT model based on reported water use in 2000 and during 2015–2019, and both green and blue water footprints were calculated. The results showed that compared to 2000 water use efficiency of crop production for maize, rice and wheat during 2015–2019 were increased by about 12.4%, 10.8%, and 2.5% respectively. The current spatial structure of the stable grain industry that makes up grain production regions are concentrated in northern China, then grains are distributed across China (North-to-South Grain Transportation). This has advantages in the increase of agricultural water productivity. This research indicated that agricultural policies should further consider an advance of regional grain production, along with the optimization of transportation channels for stable grains to increase irrigation water use efficiency. The establishment of staple grain production in designated areas not only ensures China’s food security, but also promotes the sustainable use of irrigation water resources. Full article
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Progress in Developing Scale-Able Approaches to Field-Scale Water Accounting Based on Remote Sensing
by Rutger Willem Vervoort, Ignacio Fuentes, Joost Brombacher, Jelle Degen, Pedro Chambel-Leitão and Flávio Santos
Sustainability 2022, 14(5), 2732; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14052732 - 25 Feb 2022
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To increase water productivity and assess water footprints in irrigated systems, there is a need to develop cheap and readily available estimates of components of water balance at fine spatial scales. Recent developments in satellite remote sensing platforms and modelling capacities have opened [...] Read more.
To increase water productivity and assess water footprints in irrigated systems, there is a need to develop cheap and readily available estimates of components of water balance at fine spatial scales. Recent developments in satellite remote sensing platforms and modelling capacities have opened opportunities to address this need, such as those being developed in the WaterSENSE project. This paper showed how evapotranspiration, soil moisture, and farm-dam water volumes can be quantified based on the Copernicus data from the Sentinel satellite constellation. This highlights distinct differences between energy balance and crop factor approaches and estimates that can be derived from the point scale to the landscape scale. Differences in the results are related to assumptions in deriving evapotranspiration from remote sensing data. Advances in different parts of the water cycle and opportunities for crop detection and yield forecasting mean that crop water productivity can be quantified at field to landscape scales, but uncertainties are highly dependent on input data availability and reference validation data. Full article
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