HELGA: a global hydro-economic model of groundwater-fed irrigation from a farmer’s perspective

Overexploitation of groundwater for irrigation can ultimately threaten the viability of agriculture itself, because the falling groundwater levels become too deep to sustain the increasing costs of groundwater extraction, an economic limit is reached. In order to evaluate possible adaptation strateg...

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Published in:	Environmental Research Letters
Main Authors:	Sioux F Melo-León, Stijn Reinhard, Marc F P Bierkens, Rens van Beek
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	IOP Publishing 2024-01-01
Subjects:	hydro-economics groundwater irrigation adaptation strategies economic limit
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad8246