[Departement_IRSTEA]Eaux [TR1_IRSTEA]GEUSI [Encadrant_IRSTEA]Mailhol, J.C. ; Cheviron, B.The "more crop per drop" paradigm is behind considerable efforts to increasing the productivity of water consumed in irrigated agriculture. In this context, the evaluation of the agronomic performances of irrigation techniques and their ability to reduce the water consumption is a prerequisite for optimizing water use in irrigated agriculture. This thesis explores the potentials of Subsurface Drip Irrigation (SDI) within a modeling framework to evaluate its agronomic performance under various soil and climatic contexts. Many crop models allow today the prediction of crop yields as a function of, inter alia, the climatic conditions, the type of soil, the...