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Crop Selection

Decisions regarding crop selection can have multiple effects on soil, water and energy use, with different crops requiring varying amounts of energy, water and soil nutrients. With rising temperatures due to climate change, specific areas throughout the world will require more water and experience lower crop yields. Crop decisions regarding growing energy, food or feed crops and choosing crops according to the region’s climates and inherent resource restrictions need to be considered to reduce their impact on these necessary resources.

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Path Choice of Developing Bio-energy while Keeping Food Security ---a General Equilibrium Model

This paper focused on a discussion whether developing bio-energy will threaten food security in China. It constructed a general equilibrium…

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Energy Procedia

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1 May 2017

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The Spatiotemporal Variation Analysis of Virtual Water for Agriculture and Livestock Husbandry: A Study for Jilin Province in China

Using the Penman-Monteith model and Theil index combining the CROPWAT software, the authors of this paper study the Jilin Province.…

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Science of The Total Environment

Date:

15 May 2017

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Millennium Villages Project-Mali

This paper discusses the Columbia Water Center’s (in conjunction with the Millennium Villages Project in Mali), the developed and tested…

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Columbia Water Center

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Hydropower Versus Irrigation: An Analysis of Global Patterns

While reservoir operations for hydroelectricity production might support irrigation, there are also well-known cases where hydroelectricity production reduces water availability…

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Environmental Research Letters

Date:

28 February 2017

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Water Savings of Crop Redistribution in the United States

Recent research on the food-water nexus has highlighted how some major agricultural regions of the world lack the water resources…

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Water — Open Access Journal

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30 January 2017

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Climate Cange Vulnerability in the Food, Energy, and Water Nexus: Concerns for Agricultural Production in Arizona and its Urban Export Supply

A dynamic simulation model of the food-energy-water nexus in Arizona to assess the potential impacts of increasing temperatures and disruptions…

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Environmental Research Letters

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28 February 2017

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Algal Food and Fuel Coproduction can Mitigate Greenhouse Gas Emissions while Improving Land and Water-Use Efficiency

This paper examines the trade-offs associated with producing fuel and food from algae at the energy–food–water–climate nexus.

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Environmental Research Letters

Date:

28 October 2017

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A Worldwide Comparison of Water Use Efficiency of Crop Production

This report is a summary and decomposition of water use efficiency of crop production variations in 87 countries from 1990…

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Applied Mechanics and Materials