Adapting agriculture to climate change via sustainable irrigation: biophysical potentials and feedbacks

L Rosa - Environmental Research Letters, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Irrigated agriculture accounts for∼ 90% of anthropogenic freshwater consumption, is
deployed on 22% of cultivated land, and provides 40% of global food production. Expanding …

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 …

Global agricultural economic water scarcity

L Rosa, DD Chiarelli, MC Rulli, J Dell'Angelo… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Water scarcity raises major concerns on the sustainable future of humanity and the
conservation of important ecosystem functions. To meet the increasing food demand without …

Water use indicators and economic analysis for on-farm irrigation decision: A case study of a super high density olive tree orchard

JE Fernández, F Alcon, A Diaz-Espejo… - Agricultural water …, 2020 - Elsevier
Increasing the efficiency of on-farm water use requires wise decisions on the irrigation
system, the irrigation strategy and the method to schedule irrigation, among other factors …

Small targeted dietary changes can yield substantial gains for human health and the environment

KS Stylianou, VL Fulgoni III, O Jolliet - Nature Food, 2021 - nature.com
To identify environmentally sustainable foods that promote health, we combined nutritional
health-based and 18 environmental indicators to evaluate, classify and prioritize individual …

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 …

Multi-model assessment identifies livestock grazing as a major contributor to variation in European Union land and water footprints

D Vanham, M Bruckner, F Schwarzmueller, J Schyns… - Nature Food, 2023 - nature.com
Food systems are the largest users of land and water resources worldwide. Using a multi-
model approach to track food through the global trade network, we calculated the land …

Water footprint assessment: evolvement of a new research field

AY Hoekstra - Water Resources Management, 2017 - Springer
This paper reviews the evolvement of water footprint assessment (WFA) as a new research
field over the past fifteen years. The research is rooted in four basic thoughts:(1) there is a …

[HTML][HTML] Water scarcity alleviation through water footprint reduction in agriculture: the effect of soil mulching and drip irrigation

H Nouri, B Stokvis, A Galindo, M Blatchford… - Science of the total …, 2019 - Elsevier
Water scarcity has received global attention in the last decade as it challenges food security
in arid and semi-arid regions, particularly in the Middle East and North Africa. This research …

Quantifying global agricultural water appropriation with data derived from earth observations

B Wu, F Tian, M Zhang, S Piao, H Zeng, W Zhu… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
Agricultural water appropriation has undergone rapid changes in recent decades, but
estimates of global water appropriation have not been updated with the latest data and …