Groundwater depletion embedded in international food trade

Carole Dalin (), Yoshihide Wada, Thomas Kastner and Michael J. Puma
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Carole Dalin: Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London
Yoshihide Wada: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Thomas Kastner: Institute of Social Ecology, Vienna, Alpen-Adria Universitaet Klagenfurt, Wien, Graz
Michael J. Puma: Columbia University, Center for Climate Systems Research

Nature, 2017, vol. 543, issue 7647, 700-704

Abstract: Global food consumption drives irrigation for crops, which depletes aquifers in some regions; here we quantify the volumes of groundwater depletion associated with global food production and international trade.

Date: 2017
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