[PCA] WEBINAR: Water Productivity - Concept, Utility, and Pathways for Improvement; May 23; 2:00pm ET

De Angelis, Patricia patricia_deangelis at fws.gov
Tue Apr 18 06:47:22 CDT 2017


It would be interesting to see how native plant crops might fare in the WP
calculation...


WATER PRODUCTIVITY - CONCEPT, UTILITY, AND PATHWAYS FOR IMPROVEMENT



Webinar date/time: May 23; 2:00pm ET



Duration: 1 hour



What will you learn?

This webinar introduces the concept of “water productivity (WP)” in
agriculture. It discusses the emergence of WP from older biophysical
concepts of “transpiration efficiency” and “crop water use efficiency,” and
explores its diagnostic utility and major pathways for its improvement in
agricultural settings. While the concept of WP has usefulness in many
agricultural sectors, the focus herein is on its utility in irrigated crop
production systems at scales ranging from field, to farm, irrigation
district, and river-basins. In this context, WP is broadly defined as the
ratio of the net benefits from the crop (i.e., “value” produced) to the
amount of water required to produce those benefits (i.e., unit water used,
applied, extracted, or diverted), and thus the recent global slogans such
as “more crop per crop.”



Presenter: Hamid J. Farahani, Ph.D., Acting National Water Management
Engineer, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Greensboro, NC



**NOTE: A "view" button will be available within one week of the live
presentation date to access the on-demand recording of this webinar.



No pre-registration required, but it is recommended that you join the
webinar session 15 minutes prior to the start of the webinar.



Details:

http://www.conservationwebinars.net/webinars/water-productivity-concept-utility-and-pathways-for-improvement



Webinar presented by USDA NRCS Science and Technology
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