Sustainable agri-food systems: environment, economy, society, and policy

H El Bilali, C Strassner, T Ben Hassen - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Agri-food systems (AFS) have been central in the debate on sustainable development.
Despite this growing interest in AFS, comprehensive analyses of the scholarly literature are …

[HTML][HTML] The paracommons of competition for resource savings: Irrigation water conservation redistributes water between irrigation, nature, and society

BA Lankford, CA Scott - Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 2023 - Elsevier
Based on understandings of a natural resource commons, we examine the competition for
redistributed irrigation water following water conservation. A 'paracommons' is characterised …

Unfolding the synergy and interaction of water-land-food nexus for sustainable resource management: A supernetwork analysis

Z Yuxi, H **gke, X Changlin, L Zhangmiao - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Given the large amounts of water, land, and food embodied in the trade of goods and
services, a key step in decoupling extensive resource consumption from the economic …

[PDF][PDF] The Water Crisis by the Global Commission on the Economics of Water: A Totalising Narrative Built on Shaky Numbers.

A Puy, B Lankford - Water alternatives, 2024 - water-alternatives.org
Reports by the 2023 Global Commission on the Economics of Water (GCEW) claim that a
global water crisis is underway because the world is close to its upper planetary boundary …

Mimicking nature to reduce agricultural impact on water cycles: A set of mimetrics

M Van Noordwijk, P Van Oel, C Muthuri… - Outlook on …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Metrics of hydrological mimicry ('mimetrics') reflect similarity in ecological structure and/or
functions between managed and natural ecosystems. Only the land-surface parts of …

Heterogeneous interactions in the water-land-food nexus in sha** resource efficiency: A supernetwork simulation

Z Yuxi, H **gke, S Chenyang, Y Jiexu… - Sustainable Production …, 2023 - Elsevier
How resource nexus depicts resources' overall performance across sectors has
overwhelming proof. However, how the interactions amongst heterogeneous resource flows …

[HTML][HTML] Drought-impacted communities in social-ecological systems: Exploration of different system states in Northeast Brazil

S Kchouk, GR Neto, LA Melsen, DW Walker… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract This study applies 'Social-Ecological Systems (SES)'concepts with the aim of
analysing why and how events happening across spatial, jurisdictional, and temporal scales …

A proposal for an academy to deliver capacity building in agricultural water management with particular reference to irrigation

B Lankford, T Mabhaudhi - Irrigation and drainage, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The paper proposes a capacity‐building programme (CBP) on water for food/agricultural
water management in sub‐Saharan Africa contained within an academy on the water …

Irrigation is more than irrigating: agricultural green water interventions contribute to blue water depletion and the global water crisis

BA Lankford, D Agol - Water International, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Reflecting on the 2023 assertion by the Global Commission on the Economics of Water that
the depletion of blue water by irrigation contributes to the global water crisis, we critique two …

[HTML][HTML] The assessment of hydrological availability and the payment for ecosystem services: A pilot study in a brazilian headwater catchment

MB Lopes Simedo, TCT Pissarra, AL Mello Martins… - Water, 2020 - mdpi.com
The assessment of water availability in river basins is at the top of the water security agenda.
Historically, the assessment of stream flow discharge in Brazilian watersheds was relevant …