Publications
FAO publications featuring AquaCrop
AquaCrop on the ground: Model applications for sustainable agricultural water management
17/03/2025
As the global challenges such as water scarcity, climate variability and the growing demand for food continue to rise, efficient agricultural water...
The AquaCrop model: Enhancing crop water productivity
01/01/2021
Water resources are linked to the global challenges of food insecurity and poverty, as well as to climate change adaptation and mitigation. In line...
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Crop yield response to water
01/01/2012
Abstracting from the scientific understanding and technological advances achieved over the last few decades, and relying on a network of several scientific...
Non-FAO publications featuring AquaCrop
AquaCrop: FAO’S crop water productivity and yield response model
01/12/2014
With the help of relatively few conservative crop parameters, AquaCrop simulates final crop yield in four steps that are easy to understand, which makes...
AquaCrop: The FAO Crop Model to Simulate Yield Response to Water: I. Concepts and Underlying Principles
01/05/2009
This article introduces the FAO crop model AquaCrop. It simulates attainable yields of major herbaceous crops as a function of water consumption under...
AquaCrop: The FAO Crop Model to Simulate Yield Response to Water: II. Main Algorithms and Software Description
01/05/2009
The AquaCrop model was developed to replace the former FAO I&D Paper 33 procedures for the estimation of crop productivity in relation to water...
AquaCrop: The FAO Crop Model to Simulate Yield Response to Water: III. Parameterization and Testing for Maize
01/05/2009
The first crop chosen to parameterize and test the new FAO AquaCrop model is maize (Zea mays L.). Working mainly with data sets from 6 yr of maize field...