Future water availability for global food production: The potential of green water for increasing resilience to global change

Rockström, Johan; Falkenmark, Malin; Karlberg, Louise; Hoff, Holger; Rost, Stefanie; Gerten, Dieter

doi:10.1029/2007wr006767

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Future water availability for global food production: The potential of green water for increasing resilience to global change

Published in Water Resources Research • Feb 13, 2009

Authors:

Johan Rockström

Malin Falkenmark

Louise Karlberg

Abstract

While past strategies for agricultural water management have focused on irrigation (use of blue water), this paper demonstrates the dominance of green water in food production. A global, yet spatially disaggregated, green‐blue analysis of water availability and requirement, using the LPJmL dynamic v...

Subject

Environmental science

Water scarcity

Farm water

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