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Local and global perspectives on the virtual water trade
... international trade (see Tamea et ...virtual water trade, being the result of strengthening of closer connections to the detriment of far- ther connections, might be influenced by partitioned trav- ...
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Recent evolution of China's virtual water trade: analysis of selected crops and considerations for policy
... virtual water, but very few go into analysing geographic distribution and the properties of China’s virtual water trade ...virtual water trade network of China based on 27 major primary ...
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Virtual Water Trade as a Strategy to Water Resource Management in Iran
... fresh water resources become fully ...new water resources and the necessity of increasing agricultural product as a result of population growth, there is a general doubt about Iran’s ability to maintain ...
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Virtual water trade and development in Africa
... 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 water ...
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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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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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Global use of water resources: a multiregional analysis of water use, water footprint and water trade balance
... increasing water stress that exists at global level and the rising number of water-scarce countries, particularly located in developing areas of the globe, need to be urgently addressed by policies oriented ...
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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 ...virtual water network (see Section 2) ...
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Virtual water trade: an assessment of water use efficiency in the international food trade
... the water saving in the interna- tional food trade is achieved from the relatively high water productivity in major food exporting countries in comparison to many food importing ...high water ...
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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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The MENA region, the virtual water trade, and the opportunity cost of agriculture
... agricultural trade, and has shown that the region’s agricultural policies carry a high opportunity cost in terms of its water use, since scarce water is allocated to low-value agriculture rather than ...
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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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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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Analyses of impacts of China's international trade on its water resources and uses
... tional trade occurs for multiple reasons, including economic development, political motivation, social consideration, his- torical trend, natural endowments (apart from water), tech- nology, ...the ...
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Virtual water: a useful concept for informing land use in New Zealand
... virtual water hypothesis have spawned considerable research on potential global water flows at the global ...of trade patterns, especially in ...virtual water trade of 146 countries and ...
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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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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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Internal and external green blue agricultural water footprints of nations, and related water and land savings through trade
... virtual water trade and wa- ter footprints, we employed a global vegetation and water balance model (LPJmL) simulating the dynamic interactions among water consumption (evapotranspiration and ...
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Unfolding the potential of the Virtual Water concept What is still under debate?
... 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 economies and ...
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The Relationship between Virtual Water Exports and the Country’s Water Resources Inventory
... 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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