Virtual Water - the Water, Food, and Trade Nexus. Useful Concept or Misleading Metaphor?
By J. Allan. 2003
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- “Virtual water”: An unfolding concept in integrated water resources management (2007, background): “Allan felt uncomfortable about the overstatement involved in attaching the world food trade to virtual water [Allan, 2003a].”
- Strategic importance of green water in international crop trade (2008, background): “Supporters of virtual water imports to water-scarce countries see interdependence between nations as a way to improve water resources management (Allan, 2003).”
- Global Patterns of Material Flows and their Socio-Economic and Environmental Implications: A MFA Study on All Countries World-Wide from 1980 to 2009 (2014, background): “the availability of water and that some countries specialize on water-intensive production despite facing water-shortage at the same time [61].”
- Sink or Swim? Water security for growth and development (2007, background): “…and production in areas with less water stress or climate variability, water pricing which provides appropriate incentives, trade in “virtual water” (Allan, 2003) and greater economic diversification more generally could all diminish an economy’s vulnerability to water shortages and shocks.”
- The danger of naturalizing water policy concepts: Water productivity and efficiency discourses from field irrigation to virtual water trade (2012, background): “Exported agricultural products represent embedded water used to produce them (Allan, 1998, 2003).”
- Towards efficient use of water resources in Europe (2012, background): “As such, it conveys the water embedded in traded products and the 'virtual' movement of water between remote catchments via those products (Allan, 2003).”
- Going against the flow: A critical analysis of inter-state virtual water trade in the context of India’s National River Linking Program (2009, background): “The same concept has differently been referred to as ‘embedded water’ (Allan, 2003), ‘exogenous water’ (Haddadin, 2003) or ‘ultra-violet’ water (Savenije, 2004).”
- Global virtual water trade and the hydrological cycle: patterns, drivers, and socio-environmental impacts (2019, background): “Virtual water has been described as ‘economically invisible and politically silent’ (Allan 2003).”