Will the world run dry? Global water and food security

Environment

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 24-36

  Rosegrant, Mark W ^a   Cai, Ximing ^a   Cline, Sarah A ^a  

^a International Water Management Institute (IWMI)   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; FLUID INTAKE; FUTUROLOGY; POLICY; PRODUCTIVITY; REVIEW; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 0042663888     PISSN: 00139157     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00139150309604555     Document Type: Review

References (7)

1. The source of these data is the 2002 IMPACT-WATER assessments and projections. IMPACT-WATER is a global modelling framework that combines an extension of the International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT) with a newly developed Water Simulation Model (WSM). For a more detailed description of the integrated model, see M. W. Rosegrant. X. Cai, and S. A. Cline, World Water and Food to 2025: Dealing with Scarcity (Washington, D.C.: International Food Policy Research Institute. 2002).
2. Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), FAOSTAT Database 2000 (Rome: FAO. 2000). accessible via http://apps.fao.org/.
3. World Health Organization (WHO) and United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Global Water Supply and Sanitation Assessment 2000 Report (Geneva: UN, 2000).
4. For a more detailed analysis of these and other scenarios and a detailed discussion of methodology, see M, W. Rosegrant, X. Cai, and S. A. Cline. Global Water Outlook to 2025: Averting an Impending Crisis (Washington, D.C.: International Food Policy Research Institute, 2002); and Rosegrant, Cai, and Cline, note 1 above.
5. West Asia and North Africa is one of the regional groupings used in the IMPACT-WATER model. The region consists of the following countries: Egypt, Turkey. Algeria, Cyprus, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Saudi Arabia. Syria, Tunisia, United krab Emirates, and Yemen.
6. J. A. Allan, "Water Security Policies and Global Systems for Water Scarce Regions," in Sustainability of Irrigated Agriculture - Transactions. Vol. IE, special session: "The Future of Irrigation under Increased Demand from Competitive Uses of Water and Greater Needs for Food Supply - R.7." in the symposium on Management Information Systems in Irrigation and Drainage, Sixteenth Congress on Irrigation and Drainage, Cairo (New Delhi: International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage, 1996), 117-32.
7. J. A. Allan, "Water Security Policies and Global Systems for Water Scarce Regions," in Sustainability of Irrigated Agriculture - Transactions. Vol. IE, special session: "The Future of Irrigation under Increased Demand from Competitive Uses of Water and Greater Needs for Food Supply - R.7." in the symposium on Management Information Systems in Irrigation and Drainage, Sixteenth Congress on Irrigation and Drainage, Cairo (New Delhi: International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage, 1996), 117-32.