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In recent years, a confluence of forces has begun to slow irrigation's expansion and to raise
questions about agriculture's heavy claim on the world's rivers, streams, and underground …

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Sandra L. Postel his year marks the 200th anniversary of the publication of Thomas
Malthus's famous essay postulating that human popu-lation growth would outstrip the earth's …

The article discusses the need for plant breeders, agronomists and geneticists to collaborate
to come up with a solution that would help improve crop production in a climate-changed …

The old green revolution was actually a blue-green revolution whose success involved
increases in irrigated areas around the world and in water management as much as it did …

Agriculture continues to be a major consumer of global water with increasing demand in the
sector due to increasing human population and extreme climate events (increasing …

Perspective: Don't foul the water | Nature Skip to main content Thank you for visiting nature.com.
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" On the one hand, the fundamental fear of food shortages encourages ever greater use of
water resources for agriculture. On the other, there is a need to divert water from irrigated …

This chapter (a reduced version of a chapter in Worldwatch Paper 93, Water for Agriculture:
Facing the Limits) examines the use of water for irrigation throughout the world. In recent …