The water footprint of european agricultural imports: hotspots in the context of water scarcity

I Dolganova, N Mikosch, M Berger, M Núñez… - Resources, 2019 - mdpi.com
This study investigates the Water Footprint (WF) resulting from the agricultural imports of the
European Union (EU-28). Import trade statistics were compiled and linked with crop-and …

Water footprint of German agricultural imports: local impacts due to global trade flows in a fifteen-year perspective

N Finogenova, I Dolganova, M Berger, M Núñez… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
This study investigates the water scarcity footprint (WSF) trend of German agricultural
imports over recent years, following the principles of the ISO 14046 standard on water …

Virtual water trade and water footprint of agricultural goods: the 1961–2016 CWASI database

S Tamea, M Tuninetti, I Soligno… - Earth System Science …, 2020 - essd.copernicus.org
To support national and global assessments of water use in agriculture, we build a
comprehensive and harmonized database of water footprint and virtual water trade (VWT) …

Virtual water flows, water footprint and water savings from the trade of crop and livestock products of Germany

K Brindha - Water and Environment Journal, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Comprehensive assessment of the virtual water trade of Germany with the world is
performed and the national water footprint through the trade of crop and livestock products …

Informing national food and water security policy through water footprint assessment: the case of Iran

F Karandish, AY Hoekstra - Water, 2017 - mdpi.com
Iran's focus on food self-sufficiency has led to an emphasis on increasing water volumes
available for irrigation with little attention to water use efficiency, and no attention at all to the …

Virtual water flows and water-footprint of agricultural crop production, import and export: A case study for Israel

E Shtull-Trauring, N Bernstein - Science of the Total Environment, 2018 - Elsevier
Agriculture is the largest global consumer of freshwater. As the volume of international trade
continues to rise, so does the understanding that trade of water-intensive crops from areas …

Water Footprint of crop productions: A review

D Lovarelli, J Bacenetti, M Fiala - Science of the total environment, 2016 - Elsevier
Water Footprint is an indicator recently developed with the goal of quantifying the virtual
content of water in products and/or services. It can also be used to identify the worldwide …

The water footprints of Morocco and the Netherlands: Global water use as a result of domestic consumption of agricultural commodities

AY Hoekstra, AK Chapagain - Ecological Economics, 2007 - Elsevier
The volume of international trade in agricultural commodities is increasing faster than the
global volume of production, which is an indicator of growing international dependencies in …

The external water footprint of the Netherlands: Geographically-explicit quantification and impact assessment

PR Van Oel, MM Mekonnen, AY Hoekstra - Ecological Economics, 2009 - Elsevier
This study quantifies the external water footprint of the Netherlands by partner country and
import product and assesses the impact of this footprint by contrasting the geographically …

The water footprints of Morocco and the Netherlands

AY Hoekstra, A Chapagain - 2006 - research.utwente.nl
Although bulk water itself is not a tradable commodity, agricultural commodities–that
generally consume a lot of water during production–are increasingly being traded. As a …