Water for agriculture: Maintaining food security under growing scarcity

Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Volumn 34, Issue , 2009, Pages 205-222

  Rosegrant, Mark W ^a   Ringler, Claudia ^a   Zhu, Tingju ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Depletion; Evapotranspirative demand; Intersectoral competition; Water security

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL YIELDS; BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATIVE DEMAND; FOOD PREFERENCE; FOOD SECURITY; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; GROUNDWATER DEPLETION; IRRIGATED AGRICULTURE; PRICE STABILITY; ROLE OF WATER; SOIL DEGRADATION; WATER SCARCITY; WATER SECURITY; WATER WITHDRAWAL;

AGRICULTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPETITION; DEGRADATION; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER POLLUTION; WATER SUPPLY;

WATER RESOURCES;

EID: 77953598327     PISSN: 15435938     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.environ.030308.090351     Document Type: Article

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