Virtual Water in Global Food and Water Policy Making: Is There a Need for Rethinking?

By M. Kumar, O. Singh. 2005

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Subfields: Nutrition and Dietetics, Ocean Engineering, Water Science and Technology

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India's water future to 2025-2050: business-as-usual scenario and deviations. (2007, background): “Some water-rich countries like Japan, Brazil and South Korea import a substantial part of their food demand and hence trade virtual water—the water embedded in food imports or exports (Allan 1998; de Fraiture et al. 2004; Kumar and Singh 2005).”
The wealth of waste: the economics of wastewater use in agriculture. (2010, background): “The relationship between available water resources and their utilization can be established using the water scarcity index (Smakhtin et al., 2004; Kumar and Singh, 2005).”
Virtual Water: A Helpful Perspective, but not a Sufficient Policy Criterion (2010, background): “Kumar and Singh (2005) also conclude that trading strategies based only on the notion of virtual water will not be helpful in mitigating scarcity or improving global water use efficiency.”
International trade of scarce water (2013, background): “However, many other authors have found no relationship between virtual water trade and water scarcity (Ansink, 2010; Kumar and Singh, 2005; Ramirez-Vallejo and Rogers, 2004; Verma et al., 2009).”
Spatial decoupling of agricultural production and consumption: quantifying dependences of countries on food imports due to domestic land and water constraints (2013, background): “Considering land resources when defining dependence is important in this context, as Kumar and Singh (2005), Wichelns (2010) and Fader et al (2011) have recently pointed out.”
Global virtual water trade and the hydrological cycle: patterns, drivers, and socio-environmental impacts (2019, background): “Kumar and Singh (2005) identified cropped land as a relevant factor, although agricultural land appears to have a minor role in other studies (e.g. Tamea et al 2014, Tuninetti et al 2017b).”
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): “If it is not water endowment that determines the direction of virtual water flow, then what does? In a recent paper analyzing data for 146 countries across the globe, Kumar and Singh (2005) have argued that a country’s virtual water surplus or deficit is not determined by its water situation.”