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Comprehensive survey of existing scientific knowledge on the anticipated consequences of climate change for water use in agriculture. Climate change will have major impacts on the availability of water for growing food and on crop productivity in the decades to come.

Climatic changes --- Food security --- Water-supply, Agricultural

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Mikael D. Wolfe transforms our understanding of Mexican agrarian reform through an environmental and technological history of water management in the emblematic Laguna region. Drawing on extensive archival research in Mexico and the United States, Wolfe shows how during the long Mexican Revolution (1910-1940) engineers' distribution of the water paradoxically undermined land distribution. In so doing, he highlights the intrinsic tension engineers faced between the urgent need for water conservation and the imperative for development during the contentious modernization of the Laguna's existing flood irrigation method into one regulated by high dams, concrete-lined canals, and motorized groundwater pumps. This tension generally resolved in favor of development, which unintentionally diminished and contaminated the water supply while deepening existing rural social inequalities by dividing people into water haves and have-nots, regardless of their access to land. By uncovering the varied motivations behind the Mexican government's decision to use invasive and damaging technologies despite knowing they were ecologically unsustainable, Wolfe tells a cautionary tale of the long-term consequences of short-sighted development policies.

Land reform --- Water-supply, Agricultural --- Agriculture --- Agricultural innovations --- Agriculture --- History --- History --- History --- History --- Environmental aspects

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Water resources development --- Water-supply, Agricultural --- Water --- Rural poor --- Government policy --- Ganges River Valley (India and Bangladesh) --- Environmental conditions.

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Droughts --- Agricultural development projects --- Cropping systems --- Cowpea --- Water-supply, Agricultural --- Agricultural water-supply --- Agriculture and water --- Water-supply, Rural --- Water in agriculture --- Bean, Blackeye --- Black-eyed pea --- Blackeye bean --- Blackeyed bean --- Blackeyed pea --- Common cowpea --- Cornfield pea --- Cow-pea --- Cow-peas --- Cowbean --- Dolichos sinensis --- Pea, Blackeyed --- Pea, Cornfield --- Pea, Southern --- Southern pea --- Vigna sinensis --- Vigna unguiculata --- Vigna --- Agricultural systems --- Soil management --- Development projects, Agricultural --- Projects, Agricultural development --- Agricultural assistance --- Agriculture --- Economic development projects --- Rural development projects --- Economic aspects