Increased risk due to global warming has already become embedded in agricultural decision making in Central Asia and … impacts could be further aggravated in arid zones of Central Asia if irrigation water availability decline due to climate …

Irrigation in the Eastern US receives little attention compared to the West, but farmers in humid states of the US …, traditionally reliant on rainfall, have more than tripled irrigation since 1978. We examine this trend in Illinois where there has … been a nearly threefold increase in center pivot irrigation systems (CPIS) installations since 1988. Specifically, we …