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1251: Water

This paper is the taken from the 2009 Frank Arden Memorial Award Nuffield Farming Scholarships Trust report, ‘Science and Technology for Farming and Food’ by Lindsay Hargreaves. Other papers cover other aspects of the report

Year of Publication2011

In the UK fresh water will be scarcer. More crops will fall into irrigation need. Agriculture must find ways of increasing the ability of soils to retain moisture and to give it up to plant roots; develop more water efficient plants and which can tolerate lower quality; apply water more accurately and efficiently; reduce the energy and other resource requirements of irrigation and reduce diffuse pollution impacts of irrigation. There is considerable cross-sector response to meeting these challenges.

This item is categorised as follows

• Subject Collection > Food & drink > Food & drink supply chains
• Subject Collection > Food & drink
• Subject Collection > Environmental impact > Managing land for environmental benefit
• Subject Collection > Soils & water > Water resource management

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