Producing more food with less water in a changing world: Assessment of water productivity in 10 major river basins

Water International

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 42-62

  Cai, Xueliang ^a   Molden, David ^b   Mainuddin, Mohammed ^c   Sharma, Bharat ^d   Ahmad, Mobin ud Din ^c   Karimi, Poolad ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^b INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Sri Lanka)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

^d INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Basins; Food security; Livelihood; Water productivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 78751684900     PISSN: 02508060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2011.542403     Document Type: Article

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