Impact on food security and rural development of transferring water out of agriculture

Water Policy

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 567-586

  Rosegrant, Mark W ^a   Ringler, Claudia ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agricultural production; Demand management; Projections of food supply and demand; Water scarcity; Water transfers

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001063657     PISSN: 13667017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1366-7017(99)00018-5     Document Type: Article

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