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Virtual Water and Food Security in Tunisian Semi-Arid Region
... of water in food production, virtual water studies focus generally on food ...with water management was not ...analyzing water-scarce countries at global scale, but at the detail level, ...
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Virtual water trade and country vulnerability: A network perspective
... between virtual water trade, that is, the flow of water embodied in the international trade of agricultural goods, and vulnerability to external shocks from the vantage point of network ...that ...
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Unfolding the potential of the Virtual Water concept What is still under debate?
... The virtual water and derivative concepts, such as the water footprint, have brought much-needed attention to fundamental issues regarding water resources, within the boundaries of national ...
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Research on Virtual Water in the Chinese International Grain Trade
... world. Water is one of the basic elements in agri- cultural production and the water shortage in recent years has become a major bottleneck restricting the sustain- able development of our ...country. ...
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Determination of virtual water content of rice and spatial characteristics analysis in China
... a water-stressed country, and agriculture consumes the bulk of its water ...tual water content (VWC) of crops is one important way to develop efficient water management measures to allevi- ate ...
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Assessment of regional trade and virtual water flows in China
... Total Water Consumption = (I – A) f ˆ -1 e, we are able to quantify virtual freshwater flows between economic sectors triggered by trade between various regions in China and abroad 10 ...much water ...
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Virtual water trade: an assessment of water use efficiency in the international food trade
... the virtual water import is in fact to non-water scarce ...and water management, including bringing water resources into use, is one of the important ways to improve the rural income ...
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Local and global perspectives on the virtual water trade
... implications, virtual water trade has attracted a growing amount of attention from the scientific community in the last decade ...the virtual water content of hundreds of goods differ- ...
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The Relationship between Virtual Water Exports and the Country’s Water Resources Inventory
... is virtual water trade. The virtual water trade approach, as an approach to water input in the production and consumption of various commodities, has been introduced and discussed for ...
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Regional Assessment of the Virtual Water of Sheep and Goats in Arid Areas
... feed virtual water requirement, water intake, and feed mix water demand and service water consumption (Table ...and water consumption were far less than in the other age groups. ...
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External Virtual Water Contributes Greatly to Continual Development in Urumqi
... of water resources: why the population size continues to grow under intense water scarcity ...the water allocation patterns in Urumqi, and it generated a robust first-pass diagnostic of water ...
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Virtual water trade flows and savings under climate change
... To estimate virtual water trade flows under climate change, it is essential to first project bilateral commodity trade flows. We employ the GTAP general equilibrium trade model (Her- tel, 1997) to quantify ...
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The MENA region, the virtual water trade, and the opportunity cost of agriculture
... background water misallocation and agricultural waste because the virtual water reliance that does the backgrounding is itself backgrounded by political processes, as identified by Allan and ...
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Analysis of intra country virtual water trade strategy to alleviate water scarcity in Iran
... and water scarcity; (iii) what will be the impact of improved irrigation efficiency on wheat production, cereal production, and water scarcity alleviation; and finally, (iv) what are the implications of ...
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Evaluation on Water Resources and Determining the Values of Exported and Imported Virtual Water in Hashtgerd Region
... increasing water productivity at the farm level which has been a priority of the relevant organs for years optimized and modified by combination of correction procedures culti- vation applying on cultivation ...
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A gravity model of virtual water trade
... absolute water endowments with the water content of their trade flows (in particular of agricultural products) has led several authors to conclude about the existence of a paradox in the network of ...
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Agricultural Water Foot Print and Virtual Water Budget in Iran Related to the Consumption of Crop Products by Conserving Irrigation Efficiency
... population, water resources have become scarce to sufficient production of ...of water consumption is used for food pro- duction, the relation between food and water is ...liter water in ...
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External water footprint of Indonesian provinces : the external water footprint of Indonesian provinces and the impact of the virtual water concept on current governmental policy
... the virtual water concept for policy ...external water footprint reported here are quite insignificant to the total water footprint of the ...of virtual water, making the impact ...
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Virtual water trade and development in Africa
... Since we only present correlations in Fig. 2, we are unable to distinguish reverse causality. It is possible that higher pop- ulation levels are leading to increased virtual water imports, rather than ...
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Analysis of virtual water flows associated with the trade of maize in the SADC region: importance of scale
... of virtual water encourages a country to view agricultural crops in terms of the amount of water required to produce those crops, with a view to implement- ing trading policies that promote the ...
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