Urban growth is increasing the demand for freshwater resources, yet surprisingly the water
sources of the world's large cities have never been globally assessed, hampering efforts to …

Land‐use change is both a cause and consequence of many biophysical and
socioeconomic changes. The CLUMondo model provides an innovative approach for global …

A Global Irrigated Area Map (GIAM) has been produced for the end of the last millennium
using multiple satellite sensor, secondary, Google Earth and groundtruth data. The data …

Abstract Agricultural productivity in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) remains low and is falling
farther behind other regions of the world. Although agricultural output growth in the region …

We present an improved water-scarcity metric we call water depletion, calculated as the
fraction of renewable water consumptively used for human activities. We employ new data …

Land surface waters play a primary role in the global water cycle and climate. As a
consequence, there is a widespread demand for accurate and long‐term quantitative …

Food and water security are directly linked through the agricultural sector and food
production and processing. Increasing stresses on food and water resources, influenced by …

Bioenergy is expected to play an important role in the future energy mix as it can substitute
fossil fuels and contribute to climate change mitigation. However, large‐scale bioenergy …

Recognized and advocated as a powerful tool, the role of remote sensing in identifying,
mapping, and monitoring soil salinity and salinization will continue to expand. Remote …

This study presents a global scale analysis of cropping intensity, crop duration and fallow
land extent computed by using the global dataset on monthly irrigated and rainfed crop …