Groundwater depletion embedded in international food trade

By C. Dalin, Yoshihide Wada, Thomas Kastner, M. Puma. Nature, 2017

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Subfields: Geochemistry and Petrology, Ocean Engineering, Water Science and Technology

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Quantifying soybean evapotranspiration using an eddy covariance approach (2018, background): “Overexploitation of groundwater resources for irrigation is threatening the sustainability of irrigated crop production systems across the globe (Dalin et al., 2017).”
Adapting agriculture to climate change via sustainable irrigation: biophysical potentials and feedbacks (2022, background): “China and European nations are major importers of these agricultural commodities while India, Pakistan, the United States and Mexico are their major exporters [53, 70, 73].”
PCR-GLOBWB 2: a 5 arcmin global hydrological and water resources model (2017, background): “More recently, the output from global hydrological models has been extended to study socioeconomic impacts, such as virtual water trade (Konar et al., 2013; Dalin et al., 2017) and future agricultural production (Elliott et al.”
Interplay of trade and food system resilience: Gains on supply diversity over time at the cost of trade independency (2020, background): “Further, globalisation of food systems has led to the export of domestic products to international markets with higher prices reducing local access to food (Pace and Gephart, 2017) as well as overexploitation of local resources (Dalin et al., 2017).”
Global virtual water trade and the hydrological cycle: patterns, drivers, and socio-environmental impacts (2019, background): “Dalin et al (2017) estimated crop-specific groundwater depletion associated with irrigation globally, and determined the amounts of groundwater depletion embedded in international food trade in years 2000 and 2010.”
Global unsustainable virtual water flows in agricultural trade (2019, background): “Virtual water transfers have been related to groundwater depletion in the United States (Marston et al 2015) and globally (Dalin et al 2017).”
Quantitative assessment of agricultural sustainability reveals divergent priorities among nations (2021, background): “In other words, countries, especially those in the high-income group, can potentially show a better apparent environmental performance by adjusting the domestic production portfolio toward more environmentally friendly and profitable products, or by importing more agricultural or food products, whic”
The paradox of productivity: agricultural productivity promotes food system inefficiency (2019, positive): “, 2016), unsustainable use and pollution of water (Liu et al., 2012; Dalin et al., 2017) and driving climate change, where agri-food emits as much as 30% of global greenhouse gases (Bajželj et al.”
The Global Food‐Energy‐Water Nexus (2018, background): “As one example, the U.S. Department of Agriculture estimated that overall food-related energy use in the United States represented 16% of the Nation’s total energy budget (Canning et al., 2010).”
Non-renewable groundwater use and groundwater depletion: a review (2019, background): “…analysing the economywide effects of water scarcity (Konar et al 2013, Lenzen et al 2013), the role of non-renewable groundwater in food trade (Dalin et al 2017), the guidance of investments in water infrastructure (Rosenberg et al 2008), analysing the effectiveness of taxes and water pricing…”