WAPRO Implementers Meeting Results of Open space group “nexus water climate”.
Mitigation due to reduction of GHG emissions when irrigation water volumes are reduced substantially and Fertilizer load on to the top soil is descresed. Anaerobic conditions in soils are avoided (in rice via AWD/Drip methods of irrigation - in cotton via precision irrigation).
SRP Rice Pakistan:AWD as reasonable opportunity for GHG reductionsvery much appreciated and accepted by farmers and local authorities as method for adaptation and mitigation.
Multitude of projects does use only algorithms with additionally low deployment of local data and very little on direct measurements of various GHG components..