Meeting water requirements of an expanding world population

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 352, Issue 1356, 1997, Pages 929-936

  Falkenmark, Malin ^a  

^a Natural Science Research Council   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL NEED; CROP PRODUCTION; FOOD SUPPLY; IRRIGATED AGRICULTURAL; POLICY IMPLICATION; WATER DEMAND; WATER SCARCITY;

AFRICA; ASIA;

EID: 0030745985     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1997.0072     Document Type: Article

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