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🌾Protecting Harvests Part 5 – Floating Gardens ⛵🌾
🌾Protecting Harvests Part 5 – Floating Gardens ⛵🌾 So far, all of the previous solutions in the “Protecting Harvests” category dealt with adaptation to water scarcity. But what if too little water is not the issue but rather too much water? In regions where intense flooding regularly wipe out entire harvests, adaptation will become inevitable…
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🌾Protecting Harvests Part 4 – Breeding Drought Resistant Crops 🌽🌾
Droughts threaten our food production! In the last decade, crop failure due to drought lead to losses of 32 Billion USD in low income countries alone (FAO, https://www.fao.org/resources/digital-reports/disasters-in-agriculture/en/). Climate change will exercabate this crisis, since droughts will become more frequent. We need to adapt farming to ensure harvests and protect global food supply. Besides using…
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🌾Protecting Harvests Part 3 – Water Efficient Irrigation 🚜💧
Its summer in the northern hemisphere with many places in central Europe already having metrological droughts. Low rainfall and high temperatures put agriculture under stress with plants wilting and harvests shrinking. Climate change, exacerbates this issue, as the higher summer temperatures also increase evaporation, further lowering plant available water. To counteract plant loss, farmers go…
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🌾Protecting Harvests Part 2 – Agrivoltaics 🌤🔌🌽
This issue of WaterWednesday is mostly written by RICHMOND KULEAPE. Richmond is a dedicated researcher currently working at the Fraunhofer-Institut für Solare Energiesysteme ISE since March 2023. Prior to this, he served as a Visiting Doctoral Researcher at the Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) starting from September 2022. Alongside his academic pursuits, Richmond is actively…
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🌾Protecting Harvests Part 1 – Aquaponics 🐟🥬
🌾🌡 Climate Change & Agriculture With climate change leading to more hydrologic droughts (see in this WaterWednesday) and increased surface drying, agriculture becomes more and more threatened. Some crops cant go long without water, thus resulting in crop losses, endangering food security. While irrigation can help, groundwater, which is often used to water plants during dry…