Sustainable Irrigation Development: A Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus Perspective Achieving More Crop Per Drop Per Joule Per Hectare Under Climate Change
Presenter: Dr. Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi, Senior Researcher: Agricultural Water Management International Water Management Institute (IWMI), South Africa

United Kingdom

<p><strong>Geography</strong></p> <p>The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK) comprises England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. The UK is an island off the west coast of Europe and has a total land area of 24.36 Mha. The country is divided roughly into two main areas: lowland Britain and highland Britain. Lowland Britain and most of Northern Ireland is less than 300 m above the sea level. This includes some 70,000 ha of prime farmland in eastern England which is below sea level.</p> <p><strong>Population and land use</strong></p> <p>The population is about 66.8 Million (Population Reference Bureau, 2019), with over 80% living in towns. For many centuries most of the land was owned as estates ranging in size from a few hundred hectares upwards and comprised farms of varying sizes let out to tenants ...Read more