Water for food production: Will there be enough in 2025? Boosting the water productivity of world agriculture will be crucial to meeting future food needs

BioScience

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 629-637

  Postel, Sandra L ^a  

^a Conserv Environ Directs Global W ^*  (United States)

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EID: 0031826441     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1313422     Document Type: Article

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