Increased irrigation has been identified as an important potential adaptation to meet growing world food demand. Yet … many of the world's major irrigation regions are in arid and semi-arid regions that face climate change projections of … the potential impacts from changes in the reliability and quality of those diminishing water supplies. This article …

might shed light on how water is managed in an Italian vineyard. Future supplemental irriga-tion plans ought to be developed … meas-ures to mitigate these effects is the adoption of irrigation strategies. This has environ-mental and economic … implications. Thus, it seems essential to evaluate if irrigation is economically and environmentally justified to ensure the …