Strategic importance of green water in international crop trade

By M. Aldaya, J. Allan, Arjen Y. Hoekstra. 2008

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Environmental Engineering, Water Science and Technology

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Closing the yield gap while ensuring water sustainability (2018, background): “…water consumption, showing not only the huge water savings potential from making green water more productive in agriculture (Rockström et al 2009, Molden et al 2010, Davis et al 2017b) but also the importance of green water in global food production and international food trade (Aldaya et al 2010).”
Global virtual water trade and the hydrological cycle: patterns, drivers, and socio-environmental impacts (2019, background): “A handful of studies have partitioned blue water into surface and groundwater, since the implications of using each is different (Aldaya and Llamas 2008, Aldaya et al 2010, Schyns and Hoekstra 2014 Marston et al 2015, Schyns et al 2015, Yano et al 2015).”
Global unsustainable virtual water flows in agricultural trade (2019, background): “…irrigation, confirms previous studies that quantified the increasing reliance of international markets on cropland expansion and rain-fed agriculture, including soybean production in Brazil and Argentina, and oil palm production in Indonesia and Malaysia (Aldaya et al 2010,D’Odorico et al 2019).”
Virtual Water: A Helpful Perspective, but not a Sufficient Policy Criterion (2010, background): “Some of the authors have suggested also that “trading green virtual water” is more sensible than “trading blue virtual water” because the opportunity cost of green water is less than that of blue water (Yang et al. 2006; Aldaya et al. 2008, 2010 ).”
Safe and just Earth system boundaries (2023, unknown): “…stocks are critical for maintaining the atmospheric water cycle, which regulates seasonal precipitation levels34; can support a significant proportion of global agricultural production 70 with less impact on aquatic ecosystems than blue water use 71 ; and are closely related to the biosphere ESBs.”
Temporal dynamics of blue and green virtual water trade networks (2012, background): “Additionally, excessive irrigation can lead to soil salinization, water logging, and soil degradation, which are indirect costs of blue water, in addition to the environmental impacts associated with dam construction and operation [Postel, 1999; Aldaya et al., 2010].”
Virtual water trade flows and savings under climate change (2013, methodology): “Virtual water trade research has proliferated in the literature since the seminal paper byAllan (1993), largely in an effort to determine the quantity of water saved through trade (Chapagain et al., 2006; Aldaya et al., 2010; Hanasaki et al., 2010).”
Internal and external green-blue agricultural water footprints of nations, and related water and land savings through trade (2011, background): “(2006) and Aldaya et al. (2010) were restricted to a narrow selection of commodities or crops, they were not able to account explicitly for the dynamic interactions between soil moisture and plants, and they were based on VWC calculated at country or state level while neglecting country-internal dif”