Climate Adaptive Drainage (CAD) : developments, experiences from 2010 to present, and application in Flanders

Agricultural water management in terms of drainage and irrigation serves agricultural crop production. At the field scale, in delta areas of the world, drainage is often needed to prevent water logging and to reduce oxygen stress. Subsurface drainage has been one of the most-applied ways to control the groundwater table at the field scale. There have been technical and drainage design developments to move from conventional subsurface drainage to controlled drainage.Ongoing climate change induces more extreme dry and wet conditions that have impact on crop growth and agricultural crop yield, it... Mehr ...