Soil water and agronomic productivity

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Content: Global water balance and agronomic production in relation to food security / Raveendra Kumar Rai and Vijay P. Singh -- Soil water and agronomic production / Rattan Lal -- Changes in precipitation during the twentieth century across a latitude gradient in the United States / Anjali Dubey and Rattan Lal -- Desired future conditions for groundwater availability in the high plains aquifer system / Z. Sheng ... [et al.] -- Competition between environmental, urban, and rural groundwater demands and the impacts on agriculture in Edwards Aquifer Area, Texas / Venkatesh Uddameri and Vijay P. Singh -- Sustaining groundwater use in South Asia / Meharban Singh Kahlon, Rattan Lal, and Pritpal Singh Lubana -- Water resources and agronomic productivitiy in the West Asia and North Africa region / Mostafa Ibrahim ... [et al.] -- Water management for crop reproduction in arid lands / A.J. Clemmens ... [et al.] -- Site-specific irrigation management: precision agriculture for improved water-use efficiency / Susan A. O'Shaughnessy ... [et al.] -- Sustainable soil water management systems / G. Basch ... [et al.] -- Sustainable management of Brackish water agriculture / Paramjit Singh Minhas -- China's food security and soil water management: a green water and blue water approach / Li Baoguo and Huang Feng -- Sustainable management of scarce water resources in tropical rainfed agriculture / Suhas P. Wani ... [et al.] -- Manipulating crop geometries to increase yields in dryland areas / B.A. Stewart and Rattan Lal -- Mulch tillage for conserving soil water / Paul W. Unger, R. Louis Baumhardt, and Francisco J. Arriaga -- Enhancing precipitation-use efficiency in the world's dryland agroecosystems / G.A. Peterson, D.G. Westfall, and N.C. Hansen -- Historical and present usage of Shatian gravel mulch for crop reproduction in arid and semiarid regions of northwestern China / Liang Wei-li ... [et al.] -- Improving wheat yield and water-use efficiency under semiarid environment: U.S. southern Great Plains and China's Loess Plateau / Qingwu Xue, Wenzhao Liu, and B.A. Stewart -- Sustainable land and water management policies / Claudia Ringler and Ephraim Nkonya -- Watershed management for erosion and sedimentation control case study: Goodwin Creek, Panola County, MS / Seth M. Dabney ... [et al.] -- Toward enhancing storage of soil water and agronomic productivity / Rattan Lal