Water footprints (WFs) in crop production are an ecological measurement of water utilization
that represents the cumulative groundwater quantum consumed within a region (district/state …

The production of ecosystem services (ES) is highly dependent on the current state of spatial
distribution, pattern of occurrence, and interaction among them, which is barely studied in …

An array of methodologies to quantify blue, green, and grey water have emerged in recent
years and are still evolving rapidly, as are efforts to come up with reliable indicators of …

The advanced methods of irrigation and nutrient supply may save huge quantity of costly
inputs over the prevalent practice of surface flood (SF) irrigation and fertilizer broadcasting in …

Agriculture is acknowledged worldwide as a great contributor to global emissions of
greenhouse gases (GHGs) such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide, in particular …

Water scarcity mitigation in regional agricultural systems contributes to water use efficiency
improvement. Blue (WSI blue), green (WSI green) and grey (WSI grey) water scarcity indices …

India has the highest national freshwater demand globally and 91% of India's freshwater is
used in the agriculture sector. Cereals account for over 50% of the dietary water footprint in …

The patterns and determinants of different types of agricultural water footprints in China are
poorly understood at the prefecture-city level. In this paper, we evaluate Chinese agricultural …

There is a shortage of water and increasing demand for food in Iraq and other areas of the
world will be difficult to meet in the future. Because agriculture is the primary consumer of …

Due to Taiwan's subtropical location, this study investigates the water footprint of four energy
crops (corn, sweet potatoes, sugarcane and sweet sorghum), and one food crop (rice), in …