Water storage and agricultural resilience to drought: historical evidence of the capacity and institutional limits in the United States

Food systems are particularly sensitive to changing precipitation patterns. Resilience via irrigation will depend on baseline conditions, water source, and institutional constraints which have not been studied jointly. We draw on over 100 years of agricultural production and weather data across the...

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Published in:Environmental Research Letters
Main Authors: Steven M Smith, Eric C Edwards
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2021-01-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ac358a