Diet change and food loss reduction: What is their combined impact on global water use and scarcity?

Earth's Future

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 62-78

  Jalava, Mika ^a   Guillaume, Joseph H A ^a   Kummu, Matti ^a   Porkka, Miina ^a   Siebert, Stefan ^b   Varis, Olli ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

diet change; food loss; global change; sustainability; water footprint; water scarcity

Indexed keywords

DIETARY SHIFT; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD SECURITY; GLOBAL CHANGE; MEAT; PROTEIN; SUSTAINABILITY; SYNERGISM; WATER FOOTPRINT; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER STORAGE; WATER USE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84992307764     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23284277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015EF000327     Document Type: Article

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