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024 8 _ahttps://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abd2849
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100 0 _aMeha Jain
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245 1 0 _aGroundwater depletion will reduce cropping intensity in India
260 _aUSA :
_bAAAS,
_c2021.
500 _aPeer review
500 _aOpen Access
520 _aGroundwater depletion is becoming a global threat to food security, yet the ultimate impacts of depletion on agricultural production and the efficacy of available adaptation strategies remain poorly quantified. We use high-resolution satellite and census data from India, the world’s largest consumer of groundwater, to quantify the impacts of groundwater depletion on cropping intensity, a crucial driver of agricultural production. Our results suggest that, given current depletion trends, cropping intensity may decrease by 20% nationwide and by 68% in groundwater-depleted regions. Even if surface irrigation delivery is increased as a supply-side adaptation strategy, which is being widely promoted by the Indian government, cropping intensity will decrease, become more vulnerable to interannual rainfall variability, and become more spatially uneven. We find that groundwater and canal irrigation are not substitutable and that additional adaptation strategies will be necessary to maintain current levels of production in the face of groundwater depletion.
546 _aText in English
650 7 _2AGROVOC
_91140
_aGroundwater
650 7 _2AGROVOC
_912959
_aWater depletion
650 7 _aCropping systems
_2AGROVOC
_91068
650 7 _2AGROVOC
_96026
_aAdaptation
651 7 _2AGROVOC
_93726
_aIndia
700 1 _aFishman, R.
_920311
700 1 _aMondal, P.
_920312
700 1 _aGalford, G.L.
_920313
700 1 _aBhattarai, N.
_920314
700 1 _aNaeem, S.
_920923
700 1 _aLall, U.
_918992
700 1 _aSingh, B.
_gFormerly Sustainable Intensification Program
_8I1705951
_9793
700 1 _aDeFries, R.S.
_913908
773 0 _tScience Advances
_gv. 7, no. 9, eabd2849
_dUSA : AAAS, 2021.
_x2375-2548
856 4 _yOpen Access through DSpace
_uhttps://hdl.handle.net/10883/21553
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