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.

• Contents
• Contributors
• Preface
• 1 Climate Change and Agricultural Development: A Challenge for Water Management
• 2 Adaptation to Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture and Agricultural Water Management – A Review
• 3 Global Water Requirements of Future Agriculture: Using WATERSIM
• 4 Impacts of Climate Change on Crop Water Requirements in Huang-Huai-Hai Plain, China
• 5 Impacts of Climate Change and Adaptation in Agricultural Water Management in North China
• 6 Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation in Agricultural Water Management in the Philippines
• 7 Adaptation Strategies to Address the Climate Change Impacts in Three Major River Basins in India
• 8 Water Management for Agricultural Production in a Coastal Province of the Mekong River Delta under Sea-level Rise
• 9 Aquaculture Adaptation to Climate Change in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta
• 10 Groundwater for Food Production and Livelihoods – The Nexus with Climate Change and Transboundary Water Management
• 11 Irrigated Crop Production in the Syr Darya Basin: Climate Change Rehearsal in the 1990s
• 12 Mitigating Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Rice Production through Water-saving Techniques: Potential, Adoption and Empirical Evidence
• 13 Linking Climate Change Discourse with Climate Change Policy in the Mekong: The Case of Lao PDR
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