This article develops an economic model to analyze how the risk of water shortages affects farmers’ land irrigation decision and how the priority-based water sharing arrangement redistributes such a risk among farms with different water rights pri

Heat is a serious barrier to maize productivity increases, and heat is expected to rise as a result of climate change.

The United Nations declared 2014 the International Year of Family Farming. Although many forms of production were once family-based, agriculture is now one of the few that are still dominated by families.

The role of agricultural technologies

The IMPACT model is designed to examine alternative futures for global food supply, demand, trade, prices, and food security.

"The ability of California's water supply system to adapt to long-term climatic and demographic changes is examined.

The ability of California's water supply system to adapt to long-term climatic and demographic changes is examined.

"Spatially disaggregated estimates of over 131 streamflow, ground water, and reservoir evaporation monthly time series in California have been created for 12 different climate warming scenarios for a 72-year period.

The worsening degradation of natural resources urgently requires the adoption of more sustainable management practices. This need has led to growing interest and investment in monitoring systems for tracking the condition of natural resources.