Global potential to increase crop production through water management in rainfed agriculture

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Rost, Stefanie ^a   Gerten, Dieter ^a   Hoff, Holger ^a,b   Lucht, Wolfgang ^a   Falkenmark, Malin ^c   Rockström, Johan ^b,c  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b STOCKHOLM ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Climate change; Food security; Vapor shift; Water harvesting; Water resources

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CULTIVATION; EVAPORATION; FOOD SUPPLY; RUNOFF; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER RESOURCES; WATER SUPPLY;

BENEFICIAL EFFECTS; FOOD SECURITY; MANAGEMENT SCENARIOS; RAIN FED AGRICULTURE; SOIL EVAPORATIONS; WATER HARVESTING; WATER MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES; WORLD POPULATION;

VAPORS;

EID: 70450231725     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/4/4/044002     Document Type: Article

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