This book provides experiences from studies on agricultural water management under climate change as references for agriculture and irrigation planners, decision makers, researchers and students. Chapters 2 and 3 provide an overview of global assessment of climate change impacts and water requirement for future agriculture. Chapters 4-7 provide analyses of crop water requirements in four case studies in developing countries. Chapters 8 and 9 are studies of irrigation management under sea-level rise in Vietnam's Mekong Delta. Chapters 10-12 discuss examples of adaptation alternatives such as water-saving techniques and groundwater exploitation, and related policy settings. The last chapter links the dominant approach of uncertainty presented in the climate change discourse with policy discussions on climate adaptation strategies.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Climate Change and Agricultural Development : A Challenge for Water Management / Chu Thai Hoanh, Robyn Johnston and Vladimir Smakhtin -- Adaptation to Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture and Agricultural Water Management - A Review / Shreedhar Maskey, Dinesh Bhatt, Stefan Uhlenbrook, Krishna C. Prasad and Mukand S. Babel -- Global Water Requirements of Future Agriculture : Using WATERSIM / Aditya Sood -- Impacts of Climate Change on Crop Water Requirements in Huang-HuaiHai Plain, China / Qin Liu, Changrong Yan, Jianying Yang, Xu-rong Mei, Weiping Hao and Hui Ju -- Impacts of Climate Change and Adaptation in Agricultural Water Management in North China / Jun Xia, Xingguo Mo, Jinxia Wang and Xinping Luo -- Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation in Agricultural Water Management in the Philippines / Felino P. Lansigan and Amparo C. Dela Cruz -- Adaptation Strategies to Address the Climate Change Impacts in Three Major River Basins in India / Krishna Reddy Kakumanu, Kuppannan Palanisami, Pramod Kumar Aggarwal, Coimbatore Ramarao Ranganathan and Udaya Sekhar Nagothu -- Water Management for Agricultural Production in a Coastal Province of the Mekong River Delta under Sea-level Rise / Ngo Dang Phong, Chu Thai Hoanh, Tran Quang Tho, Nguyen van Ngoc, Tran Duc Dong, To Phuc Tuong, Nguyen Huy Khoi, Nguyen Xuan Hien and Nguyen Trung Nam -- Aquaculture Adaptation to Climate Change in Vietnam's Mekong Delta / Suan Pheng Kam, Tran Nhuong, Chu Thai Hoanh and Nguyen Xuan Hien -- Groundwater for Food Production and Livelihoods - The Nexus with Climate Change and Transboundary Water Management / Karen Villholth -- Irrigated Crop Production in the Syr Darya Basin : Climate Change Rehearsal in the 1990s / Oxana Savoskul and Elena Shevnina -- Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Rice Production through Water-saving Techniques : Potential, Adoption and Empirical Evidence / Bjoern Ole Sander, Reiner Wassmann and Joel D.L.C. Siopongco -- Linking Climate Change Discourse with Climate Change Policy in the Mekong : The Case of Lao PDR / Jana Prosinger, Diana Suhardiman and Mark Giordano.

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