ArticleNature communications2024
Global energy use and carbon emissions from irrigated agriculture.
Article in Nature communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It has been retracted, and should not be counted. Cited by 25 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
25 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Synergistic effects of advantageous agronomic measures and sensitive environmental factors on the carbon footprint of crop production based on a meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2026Pooled it
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- Assessing the impacts of extreme precipitation on groundwater recharge under diverse hydrogeological conditions via the theis equation.iScience · 2026Article
- Inter-provincial water-energy-carbon transfer and its efficiency in China: the perspective of land use.Carbon balance and management · 2026Article
- IoT-Based Precision Irrigation System Featuring Multi-Sensor Monitoring and Scheduled Automated Water-Control Gates for Rice Production.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Sustainable global irrigation expansion could support only two-thirds of croplands under 1.5 °C and 3 °C warming.Nature food · 2026Article
- Pathways to cost-optimal and net-zero emissions irrigation in the United States.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Water-Efficient Smart Drip Irrigation Enabled by a Low-Power and High-Efficiency Flexible Electromagnetic Actuator.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- A coupled spatial reduction-reconstruction and LSTM framework (SRR-LSTM) for groundwater level prediction in large irrigation districts.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Understanding the heat stress mitigation mechanisms during pollen development in Gossypium hirsutum L.Molecular biology reports · 2026Article
- Global crop-specific energy demand for irrigation.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Integrating drip fertigation and nitrification inhibitors for rhizosphere-scale control of nitrogen transformations.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Review
- Optimizing agricultural irrigation as virtual energy storage to match renewable power profiles unlocks climate benefits during the energy transition.Nature food · 2026Article
- A sensor-fused BIM-based ıntelligent control system for energy-efficient ındoor environmental regulation using deep actor-critic reinforcement learning (DACRL).Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Reconciling crop production, climate action and nature conservation in Europe by agricultural intensification and extensification.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Agricultural machinery could contribute 20% of total carbon and air pollutant emissions by 2050 and compromise carbon neutrality targets in China.Nature food · 2025Article
- Integrated irrigation and nitrogen optimization is a resource-efficient adaptation strategy for US maize and soybean production.Nature food · 2025Article
- Anthropogenic Water Withdrawals Modify Freshwater Inorganic Carbon Fluxes across the United States.Environmental science & technology · 2025Article
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6 authors.
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Abstract
Irrigation is a land management practice with major environmental impacts. However, global energy consumption and carbon emissions resulting from irrigation remain unknown. We assess the worldwide energy consumption and carbon emissions associated with irrigation, while also measuring the potential energy and carbon reductions achievable through the adoption of efficient and low-carbon irrigation practices. Currently, irrigation contributes 216 million metric tons of CO
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