The original AquaCrop source code (in Pascal) was developed by:
- Dirk Raes (KU Leuven)
- Elias Fereres (IAS-CSIC & University of Cordoba)
- Pasquale Steduto (former FAO)
- Theodore Hsiao (UC Davis)
The AquaCrop v7.0 and higher versions open source code in Fortran has been established by (listed in alphabetical order):
KU Leuven
- Michel Bechtold
- Louise Busschaert
- Gabrielle De Lannoy
- Shannon de Roos
- Zdenko Heyvaert
- Jonas Mortelmans
- Dirk Raes
- Samuel Scherrer
- Maxime Van den Bossche
For the development of the first open source code version in Fortran (AquaCrop version 7.0), funding has been received from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 773903. Subsequent developments have been funded by Belspo, FWO and C1 KU Leuven.