Rainwater Harvesting for Climate-resilient Agriculture: A Critical Appraisal of Field-scale Gains, Catchment-scale Trade-offs and Institutional Constraints
Rainfed cropping supports the majority of the world's cultivated land and a large share of global crop production, yet it remains acutely exposed to intra-seasonal dry spells and to the shifting rainfall regimes associated with a warming climate. Rainwater harvesting, understood as the deliberate capture of precipitati...