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Virtual Water

Water Embodied in Food

Virtual or embodied water is the water embedded in consumer products. The concept was developed to help track the trade of virtual water in international trade relations in order to conserve water in countries with water scarcity. The water footprint of a product is an indicator of how much water is consumed over the whole supply chain of the product (“Frequently Asked Questions”, The Water Footprint Network). In relation to agriculture and food production, the “water footprint of a nation is related to dietary habits of people” (“The Concepts of Water Footprint and Virtual Water”, The Global Development Research Center). This section includes virtual water or water footprint research and associated practices for improving water resource management in agriculture and food processing.

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Food Consumption and Waste in Spanish Households: Water Implications Within and Beyond National Borders

This paper focuses on assessing the water-related implications of food consumption and waste among Spanish consumers to discern possible policy…

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Ecological Indicators

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1 June 2018

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The Water-Energy-Food Nexus in East Asia: A Tele-connected Value Chain Analysis Using Inter-regional Input-output Analysis

In this article, the transnational interregional input-output approach is used in a tele-connected water-energy-food nexus analysis of the East Asia…

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Applied Energy

Date:

15 January 2018

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Renewable Energy in the Water, Energy & Food Nexus

Providing the broad analysis that has been lacking on the interactions of renewables within water and food sectors. Building on…

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International Renewable Energy Agency

Date:

1 January 2015

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Evaluation of External Virtual Water Export and Dependency through Crop Trade: an Asian Case Study

The aim of this study was to evaluate virtual water export through five crops (barley, rice, maize, soybeans, and wheat)…

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Paddy and Water Environment

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3 December 2016

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Energy-Water Nexus in Urban Industrial System

This work proposed an environmental input-output analysis based methodological model to depict the nexus and reflect its dualistic impacts on…

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Energy Procedia

Date:

1 June 2016

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Water Resources Vulnerability Assessment of MENA Countries Considering Energy and Virtual Water Interactions

Scarce water resources of MENA countries are under multiple stressors: population growth, growing economies, land use changes, changing lifestyles or…

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Procedia Engineering

Date:

1 January 2017

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A Fast Track Approach to Deal with the Temporal Dimension of Crop Water Footprint

This article demonstrates the feasibility of the Fast Track (FT) approach to deal with the temporal dimension of crop water…

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Environmental Research Letters

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4 July 2017