Cool Farm Alliance | Water Metric

Water metric
Will the tool provide meaningful results if I do not enter any irrigation?
The Cool Farm Tool does not require any information on irrigation if no irrigation is applied. For rainfed agriculture, the tool will estimate water use, water footprints and water use efficiency based on precipitation only. Therefore, you will only ...
Why does the Cool Farm Tool not show the effect of different irrigation options on the yield?
Like the carbon tool, we do not run a crop growth model to simulate the effect of different management interventions on crop production. To understand the full effect of different management on water footprints and water use efficiency please make ...
What does the irrigation efficiency show?
The number represents gross irrigation divided by crop water requirements. This describes how much of the crop requirements are supplied by irrigation. Therefore, the lower the number the less irrigation water-dependent is your production. However, ...
Why can I not select my crop in my GHG and Water assessment?
The water module is only available for a range of crops in the tool: Alfalfa, Barley, Coffee, Cotton, Dry Bean, Maize, Millet, Oats, Other grain, Other legume, Other N-fixing forage, Other Non-N-fixing forage, Peanut, Perennial grass, Potato, Rice, ...

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