The water footprint of global food production

MM Mekonnen, W Gerbens-Leenes - Water, 2020 - mdpi.com
Agricultural production is the main consumer of water. Future population growth, income
growth, and dietary shifts are expected to increase demand for water. The paper presents a …

Regional strategies for the accelerating global problem of groundwater depletion

W Aeschbach-Hertig, T Gleeson - Nature Geoscience, 2012 - nature.com
Groundwater—the world's largest freshwater resource—is critically important for irrigated
agriculture and hence for global food security. Yet depletion is widespread in large …

Constraints and potentials of future irrigation water availability on agricultural production under climate change

J Elliott, D Deryng, C Müller, K Frieler… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
We compare ensembles of water supply and demand projections from 10 global
hydrological models and six global gridded crop models. These are produced as part of the …

Limits to the world's green water resources for food, feed, fiber, timber, and bioenergy

JF Schyns, AY Hoekstra, MJ Booij… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Green water––rainfall over land that eventually flows back to the atmosphere as
evapotranspiration––is the main source of water to produce food, feed, fiber, timber, and …

[图书][B] The water footprint assessment manual: Setting the global standard

AY Hoekstra - 2011 - books.google.com
People use lots of water for drinking, cooking and washing, but significantly more for
producing things such as food, paper and cotton clothes. The water footprint is an indicator …

The green, blue and grey water footprint of crops and derived crop products

MM Mekonnen, AY Hoekstra - Hydrology and earth system …, 2011 - hess.copernicus.org
This study quantifies the green, blue and grey water footprint of global crop production in a
spatially-explicit way for the period 1996–2005. The assessment improves upon earlier …

A high-resolution assessment on global nitrogen flows in cropland

J Liu, L You, M Amini, M Obersteiner… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - National Acad Sciences
Crop production is the single largest cause of human alteration of the global nitrogen cycle.
We present a comprehensive assessment of global nitrogen flows in cropland for the year …

[HTML][HTML] Water conservancy projects in China: Achievements, challenges and way forward

J Liu, C Zang, S Tian, J Liu, H Yang, S Jia, L You… - Global Environmental …, 2013 - Elsevier
China's water policies in the past decades have relied heavily on the construction of
massive water conservancy projects in the form of dams and reservoirs, water transfer …

The future of hydrology: An evolving science for a changing world

T Wagener, M Sivapalan, PA Troch… - Water Resources …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Human activities exert global‐scale impacts on our environment with significant implications
for freshwater‐driven services and hazards for humans and nature. Our approach to the …

The unfolding water drama in the Anthropocene: towards a resilience‐based perspective on water for global sustainability

J Rockström, M Falkenmark, T Allan, C Folke… - …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The human influence on the global hydrological cycle is now the dominant force behind
changes in water resources across the world and in regulating the resilience of the Earth …