Accurate nitrogen (N) fertilization management is imperative with the view of achieving high crop performance without jeopardizing product quality. Nonetheless, excessive application of synthetic N fertilizers might have detrimental impacts on both environment and human healthiness. Moreover, climate changes modified water availability with repercussions on farmers' habits. Accordingly, there...
Sicily is a Mediterranean region with evident structural problems of water scarcity and especially in this last period of the last 12 months we are having a severe drought crisis. The climate change emphasises the typical characteristic of the Mediterranean semiarid climate of our region.
Different strategies can be adopted to contrast water scarcity and to mitigate the impact of the climate...
Constructed wetland systems (CWs) have been recognized as one of the most acceptable technologies for sustainable agricultural wastewater management. They represent green infrastructures and provide solutions to treatment of wastewaters that agricultural activities produce in different ways depending on the type of agro-industrial production [1]. Particularly, CWs offer the advantages of...
Water scarcity challenges agricultural production, demanding more precise and efficient irrigation management. Plant-based continuous monitoring has emerged as a promising approach for optimizing irrigation as it can detect water stress progression, although it is often difficult to interpret sensor outputs. Plant water potential is a robust water status indicator widely used for managing...
The integration of Reverse Osmosis (RO) desalination systems with Renewable Energy (RE) technologies offers a sustainable approach to water production. However, the inherent variability of RE sources, along with seasonal shifts in seawater temperature, present significant challenges to the effectiveness of RO membranes. Consequently, there is a critical need for research to examine the impacts...
Increasing water productivity is a challenge to be met in all environments characterized by water scarcity. This objective can be achieved through the precision management of irrigation practices which involves identifying the appropriate irrigation doses to be applied timely for crop needs.
The latest generation of sensors, combined with the use of ICT, makes it possible to monitor the water...
With the predicted future climate change, the impact of drought stress on the production of agricultural crops can only be expected to become more severe in many parts of the arid and semi-arid regions. Thus, there is an urgent need to rapidly determine the drought tolerance capacity of agricultural crops. Leaf osmotic potential at full turgor as measured using osmometry has widely been...
One strategy to improve the efficiency of irrigation water is regulated deficit irrigation (RDI), which consists of reducing water supplies, in some phenological phases, in relation to the water needs of crops.
An experiment was conducted on processed tomatoes (cv: Tayson F1) to evaluate the effect of deficit irrigation practice on the quantity and quality of tomato production in order to...
The water crisis due to droughts or floods increasingly affects many places in Southern Europe. Linked with climate change, it is a serious emergency causing great concern. More specifically, within the Italian situation, the conditions in Sicily today appear very serious, since the island in 2023 experienced one of the worst droughts in the last thirty years and in the first half of 2024. The...
Keywords: decision support systems, remote sensing, water management, olive
Abstract
Water scarcity, combined with the increased food demand, requires a more efficient use of resources as well as recourse to unconventional sources [1]. The main goal of the RIUBSAL project is to develop innovative technologies for monitoring and reusing urban wastewater, evaluating their sustainability,...
Nowadays irrigation of durum wheat represents a key point to provide food security in a context of climate change. Although this topic has caught on particular attention from the global scientific community, many issues and aspects remains understudied. To fill the knowledge gap and collate present evidences, this analysis used a combined bibliometric and thematic approach to synthesize the...
Vegetation phenology is strongly impacted by ongoing climate change. With the increase of drought periods, it also becomes crucial to improve methods aiming a better management of irrigation. Remote sensing provides increasing available data at high spatial and temporal resolution which can help the monitoring of vegetation growth and the water resources. A brief overview of the main surface...
