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Brain storming problems

Outcome of the Working Group N. 4. Brain storming problems Effect of increased of T on determining water crop demand although is not the most important factor Effect of vegetative seasons The lack of integration of UWU into WUE/WP practices

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Brain storming problems

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  1. Outcome of the Working Group N. 4 • Brain storming • problems • Effect of increased of T on determining water crop demand although is not the most important factor • Effect of vegetative seasons • The lack of integration of UWU into WUE/WP practices • Protected cultures like Green Houses we can help to reach maximization of WP, but problem is landscape and contamination • If WUE-WP is not part of an environmental policy it can have negative effects on the environment: reallocation for environmental purposes • Increased efficiency is driven too much by profit and not balanced with the need of a clean ecosystem (ex.: increase vegetation cover) • There is little awareness of use of surface runoff and its integration in WUE. • Problem of capacity building and participatory approach in regard to the use of WUE to improve environemental conditio ns • There is a lack of a comprehensive framework to insert agriculture in the ecosystem flows • No enough technology for rainfed agriculture • Lack of education & awarness among producers and users of the link which is possible between WUE and environmental sustainability, like for example the quality of product and health • Lack of reliable information on the results of applied WUE on environment. • Difficulties in accounting the total environmental breakdown of costs and not only the financial cost of water efficiency measures • Difficult quantification of saved water volume at the relevant scale: -) monitoring devices, -) integration of hydrology

  2. ENVIRONMENTAL (ecosystem health) • improved knowledge and tools to determine true water volumes saved from water bodies’ abstraction due to WUE & WP • deeper understanding of farm-collective-catchment hydraulic relationships if we want to know effective impact of WUE&WP on natural resources • upscaling and time-scaling (scenario) development to enhance WUE & WP and climate mitigation • getting information about use of practices having an impact on the environment: -) amount of public money spent at national or local level -) local devices and tools to retrieve information • More integration of surface runoff and UWU in the WUE-WP goals: reduce impact on quality, improve water saving in general • ENVIRONMENTAL-ECONOMIC (eco-efficiency) • use total natural (environmental) and material (economic) resources in the WP yield accountantship • Increased efficiency is driven by the right balance of profit and the need/cost of a clean ecosystem • Consideration of the total environmental breakdown of costs and not only the financial cost of water efficiency measures

  3. ENVIRONMENTAL-SOCIAL (cohesion and ecosystem sanitation) • plot experimentation or demonstration available to farmers • capability of post-experimentation follow-up • increase N. of patents on sustainable WUE & WP technology • adaptation of traditional WUE & WP to market and globalisation needs: innovative WUE&WP • improved land use and water used management • ENVIRONMENTAL-INSTITUTIONAL (improve care) • improve the co-decision process, thus strengthening participatory WUE-WP with regard to environmental monitoring planning and implementation • capability to pay for public hearing regarding WUE-WP strategy and programming • institutional and farmer capability to pay and implement WUE-WP monitoring at farm level, accounting for the collective and catchment levels: care of response of the relevant water body • effective insert of WUE & WP in preventive planning for long-term drought periods (improve knowledge, share knowledge, planning capacity) • Increased integration of WUE-WP is environmental policy. Possible indicators: reallocation for environmental purposes (forestation, aquifer recharge….)

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