Does international cereal trade save water? The impact of virtual water trade on global water use

By Charlotte de Fraiture, Ximing Cai, U. Amarasinghe, M. Rosegrant, D. Molden. 2004

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Subfields: Environmental Engineering, Ocean Engineering, Water Science and Technology

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Satisfying future water demands for agriculture (2010, background): “But political and economic factors may limit the scope and potential of such trading arrangements (De Fraiture et al., 2004; Wichelns, 2004).”
Strategic importance of green water in international crop trade (2008, methodology): “Although the hydrological impact is thus often small, there is a loss of natural environments (Rosegrant et al., 2002; De Fraiture et al., 2004).”
Virtual water trade: an assessment of water use efficiency in the international food trade (2006, background): “In examining the role of virtual water trade in alleviating water stress, a number of studies have estimated the volumes of virtual water embodied in the international food trade (Yang and Zehnder, 2002a; Yang et al., 2003; Hoekstra and Hung, 2003, 2005; Oki and Kanae, 2004; Zimmer and Renault, 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): “However, policy conclusions from these results were suitably moderated by De Fraiture et al. (2004) who noted that global water savings are caused as a result of productivity differences between importing and exporting countries and are only an unintended by-product of international trade in…”
The Global Dimension of Water Governance: Why the River Basin Approach Is No Longer Sufficient and Why Cooperative Action at Global Level Is Needed (2010, background): “As a consequence, international virtual water trade can in most cases not at all, or only partly, be explained on the basis of relative water abundance or shortage [69].”
The danger of naturalizing water policy concepts: Water productivity and efficiency discourses from field irrigation to virtual water trade (2012, background): “De Fraiture et al. (2004) found that international trade in cereals did not save water.”
The global component of freshwater demand and supply: an assessment of virtual water flows between nations as a result of trade in agricultural and industrial products (2008, background): “As a consequence, international virtual water trade can most times not at all or only partly be explained on the basis of relative water abundances or shortages (De Fraiture et al. 2004, Wichelns 2004).”