Water resources are declining at an alarming rate in the world. The use of water resources
for agricultural production has contributed to the rapid decline in quantity and degradation of …

There is a growing need to assess the effects of policies and global changes on both water
resources and agriculture. Agricultural programming models are adequate to study this topic …

The São Francisco River is strategically important due to its hydroelectric potential and for
bringing the largest water body of Brazilian Semiarid region, supplying water for irrigation …

Brazil is one of the largest suppliers of commodities in the world, partly due to the
agricultural expansion in the Cerrado biome that began in the 1970s. However, as areas …

Understanding the long-term behavior of rainfall and potential evapotranspiration (PET) over
watersheds is crucial for the monitoring of hydrometeorological processes and climate …

The São Francisco River Basin (SFRB) plays a key role for the agricultural and hydropower
sectors in Northeast Brazil (NEB). Historically, in the low part of the SFRB, people have to …

Abstract The Cerrado (Brazilian savannah) is one of the few places in the world that has the
potential to increase crop production to meet the projected food demand for 2050. However …

Rio Doce watershed has centuries of land degradation and it was the main victim of the
worst environmental disaster in Brazil's history. This process of deforestation and soil …

The objective of this study was to evaluate the causes and consequences of changes in the
water flow of the São Francisco River, on the border between the states of Sergipe and …

CONTEXT To design policies for sustainable irrigation planning, public decision-makers
need knowledge about the potential environmental impacts of irrigated farming systems. In a …