Virtual Water Trade
Recent evolution of China's virtual water trade: analysis of selected crops and considerations for policy
... soybean-associated virtual water balance of other countries is minor and negative), account for ...China’s virtual water trade on yearly ...food trade barri- ers, it explains the ...
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Virtual water trade flows and savings under climate change
... international trade of food commodities links water and food systems, with important implications for both water and food ...embodied water resources asso- ciated with food trade are ...
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Local and global perspectives on the virtual water trade
... of virtual water trade is, in some ways, just ...of virtual water from the point of view of a single country (hence the local component of our ...the virtual water balance ...
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Virtual water trade and development in Africa
... Does virtual water trade impact human population and development? (2) Is there a relationship between virtual water trade and food security? (3) What is the relationship between ...
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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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Virtual Water Trade as a Strategy to Water Resource Management in Iran
... Virtual water, however, can be used in water-scarce countries such as Iran, so that they can use it as a way to relieve the pressure on water resources, and accordingly, as an alternative in ...
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Virtual water trade and bilateral conflicts
... physical water scarcity, and in just two decades this number may double. Water scarcity can hamper growth prospects and some regions could see their growth rates decline by as much as 6 per cent of GDP by ...
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Analysis of the characteristics of the global virtual water trade network using degree and eigenvector centrality, with a focus on food and feed crops
... global virtual water trade (GVWT), such as the connectiv- ity of each trader, vulnerable importers, and influential coun- tries, using degree and eigenvector centrality during the pe- riod ...of ...
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Virtual water trade and country vulnerability: A network perspective
... potential trade-off between the need to import agricultural goods (and the associated potential saving in water resources) and the vulnerability to external ...international virtual water ...
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Virtual water trade: an assessment of water use efficiency in the international food trade
... increasing water scarcity in many parts of the world, virtual water trade as both a policy instrument and practical means to balance the local, national and global water budget has ...
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Modeling crop cultivation pattern based on virtual water trade: evidence from Marvdasht in southern Iran
... of virtual water inside and/or among the countries, and even among the continents, can be considered as a tool for increasing the efficiency of water consumption on the global level, achieving ...
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Virtual water trade in the SADC region : a grid based approach
... Industrial Industrial Industrial share share share of total of total of total blue blue WF grey WF & grey WF Country Angola Botswana DRC Lesotho Madagascar Malawi Mauritius" Mozambique N[r] ...
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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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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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Evaluation on Water Resources and Determining the Values of Exported and Imported Virtual Water in Hashtgerd Region
... of virtual water in recent years has been proposed with the world’s water resource consumption management ...of virtual water in the agricultural sector of the study area and its impact ...
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Virtual water: a useful concept for informing land use in New Zealand
... the virtual water hypothesis have spawned considerable research on potential global water flows at the global ...of trade patterns, especially in ...net virtual water ...
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Assessment of food trade impacts on water, food, and land security in the MENA region
... largest water deficit in the ...to water savings and hence to increased water ...the trade-off between food security and the savings of water and land through food trade is ...
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An Assessment of Virtual Water Flows Through Crop Trade in South Africa.
... a water scarce country, where water has become a very essential natural and economic asset of a nation and the universe ...the water deficit countries, where all other major problems linked with ...
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Blue and Green Water Footprint Assessment for China – a Multi-region Input-output Approach
... green water consumption to specific sectors in different countries/regions having trade links with ...China’s water issues from a global perspective, without which attempts at local water ...
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The water footprint of Indonesian provinces related to the consumption of crop products
... on water use are usually limited to ac- counts of the water withdrawal needs in the domestic, agri- cultural and industrial ...The water-withdrawal indica- tor, however, does not give information ...
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