Moving from measurement to governance of shared groundwater resources

ME Schipanski, MR Sanderson, LE Méndez-Barrientos… - Nature Water, 2023 - nature.com
Global groundwater resources are under strain, with cascading effects on producers, food
and fibre production systems, communities and ecosystems. Investments in biophysical …

How does building healthy soils impact sustainable use of water resources in irrigated agriculture?

SE Acevedo, H Waterhouse, F Barrios-Masias… - Elem Sci …, 2022 - online.ucpress.edu
As blue water resources become increasingly scarce with more frequent droughts and
overuse, irrigated agriculture faces significant challenges to reduce its water footprint while …

Farmer participation and institutional capture in common-pool resource governance reforms. The case of groundwater management in California

LE Méndez-Barrientos, A DeVincentis… - Society & Natural …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Farmers are often critically important to the success of common-pool resource governance
reforms. Nevertheless, their participation in these off-farm reform processes has received …

The “sweet spot” in the middle: why do mid-scale farms adopt diversification practices at higher rates?

KE Esquivel, L Carlisle, A Ke, EM Olimpi… - … in Sustainable Food …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
In the past few decades, farmers and researchers have firmly established that biologically
diversified farming systems improve ecosystem services both on and off the farm, producing …

[HTML][HTML] Collective action in the area-wide management of an invasive plant disease

SG Figuera, B Babcock, M Lubell… - Ecology and …, 2022 - ecologyandsociety.org
Area-wide management (AWM) is a strategy for invasive plant pests and diseases in which
management actions are coordinated across property boundaries to target the entire pest or …

Gendered implications for climate change adaptation among farmers in Madagascar

M Moore, MT Niles - Climate and Development, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Climate change is impacting farmers worldwide; none more so than the millions of
smallholder farmers who rely entirely on rain-fed agriculture. Adapting agricultural practices …

Sustainable groundwater management and its implications for agricultural land repurposing

A Quandt, AE Larsen, G Bartel, K Okamura… - Regional Environmental …, 2023 - Springer
In this paper, we examine the implications of groundwater sustainability policies on
agricultural land retirement and how retired land can be repurposed to minimize social …

[图书][B] Scales of sustainable agricultural water management

AJ DeVincentis - 2020 - search.proquest.com
Water resources are simultaneously intrinsic to global health and prosperity while being
threatened by anthropogenic pressures associated with the population growth that they …

Farmer adaptation to reduced groundwater availability

K Running, M Burnham, C Wardropper… - Environmental …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The sustainability of agriculture in the American West depends on the capacity of farmers to
adapt to water resource constraints. Most US studies of agricultural adaptations measure …

[HTML][HTML] Individual and collective political efficacy predict farmer engagement and support for groundwater policies: implications from the California Sustainable …

MT Niles, CRH Wagner, N Aristizábal… - Ecology and …, 2024 - ecologyandsociety.org
Common-pool resource theory suggests that the direct participation of local natural resource
users in the management of common-pool resources can lead to effective management …