231 Symposium--the Blue-Green Revolution: Why Water Availability and Water Management Will Be Key to Success in Bio-Energy and Environmental Security: II

Oral Session
S06 Soil & Water Management & Conservation

The old green revolution was actually a blue-green revolution whose success involved increases in irrigated areas around the world and in water management as much as it did improvements in plant varieties and fertilization. The irrigation and water management aspects have been largely ignored, but the green revolution would not have been nearly as successful without them. It might even have failed. We also risk failure in a second green revolution if we focus only on energy and environmental security, while ignoring the water that is required for transpiration that results in yield. The water requirements for a bio-based energy system are enormous and causing a lot of concern in this country and elsewhere. Strategies to cope with this problem include the use of treated waste waters, TWW. For example, Egypt is experimenting with TWW to irrigate jatropha and jojoba. Many other examples exist.

Cosponsor(s):

A05 Environmental Quality
Tuesday, November 2, 2010: 8:00 AM-11:45 AM
Long Beach Convention Center, Room 103B, First Floor

Share |
Organizers:
Steven Evett , Harry Schomberg and Neil Hansen
Presider:
Jourdan Bell
8:00 AM
Introductory Remarks
9:20 AM
Water Use Efficiency.
Terry Howell, USDA-ARS; Steven Evett, USDA-ARS; Judy Tolk, USDA-ARS
9:45 AM
Automation of Irrigation Systems to Control Irrigation Applications and Crop Water Use Efficiency.
Susan O'Shaughnessy, USDA-ARS Conservation & Production Research Laboratory; Steven Evett, USDA-ARS Conservation & Production Research Laboratory; Paul Colaizzi, USDA-ARS Conservation & Production Research Laboratory
10:20 AM
Human Modifications of Soil Profiles Can Convert Historically Classified Marginal Soils Into Sustainably Productive Soils.
Alvin Smucker, Michigan State University; Zeyuan Yang, Michigan State University; Alexandra Kravchenko, Michigan State University
10:10 AM
Break
10:35 AM
Water Productivity of Three Oilseeds in Rotation with Durum.
Brett Allen, USDA-ARS; Andrew Lenssen, USDA-ARS; Upendra M. Sainju, USDA-ARS; TheCan Caesar-TonThat, USDA-ARS
10:50 AM
Water Use of Double Crops in No-till Cropping Systems in Oklahoma.
Andres Patrignani, Oklahoma State University; Chad Godsey, Oklahoma State University; Tyson Ochsner, Oklahoma State University
11:05 AM
Why Water Will Be the Driving Force behind Agricultural Sustainability.
Steven Evett, USDA-ARS; Terry Howell, USDA-ARS; Judy Tolk, USDA-ARS; Nazar Ibragimov, Uzbekistan Cotton Growing Research Institute; Naem Th. Mazahreh, National Centre for Agricultural Research and Extension; Mohammed A. Jitan, National Centre for Agricultural Research and Extension
11:30 AM
Discussion
11:45 AM
Adjourn