The most severe problems that people will encounter as a result of climate change will be water and food scarcity. Sustainable agriculture will become increasingly crucial as water scarcity causes drinking water shortages and makes agricultural irrigation more challenging. Agricultural sustainability is a phenomenon that consists of environmental, social, and economic factors. From an environmental standpoint alone, it can be easily seen that modeling sustainable agriculture is a very complex and difficult task, as water distribution, land features, crop diversity, and geographic conditions on watersheds are not uniform both in time and space. In this project, we provide a new and multidimensional perspective for agricultural sustainability, develop an adaptive quantification method, and create a state-based agricultural sustainability map that will be a model for the other states of the US.
By identifying the most essential criteria for agricultural sustainability in Iowa, this project will contribute to agricultural and water management planning. Furthermore, because this project will allow for the identification of vulnerable lands, it will serve as a feasibility study for planning actions connected to the strengthening of these regions. It will also be used as a component in agricultural information and decision-making systems. In addition, the results of this project will help with agricultural watershed management, environmental awareness, and justifying further decisions.
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- Yeşilköy, S., Baydaroğlu, Ö. and Demir, I., 2023. Watershed-Level Multi-Criteria Quantification of Agricultural Sustainability for Iowa: A Case Study in Middle Cedar Watershed. American Water Resources Association Summer Conference, July 17-19, Denver, CO.
