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Producing more food with less water in a changing world: assessment of water productivity in 10 major river basins [1]

This article summarizes the results of water productivity assessment in 10 river basins across Asia, Africa and South America, representing a range of agro-climatic and socio-economic conditions. Intensive farming in the Asian basins gives much greater agricultural outputs and higher water productivity. Largely subsistence agriculture in Africa has significantly lower water productivity. There is very high intra-basin variability, which is attributed mainly to lack of inputs, and poor water and crop management.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2011
Xueliang Cai [2], David Molden [3], Mohammed Mainuddin & et al [4]
Water International [5]
36
1
42-62
Tags:
Food Security [6], Water Resources [7], River Basin [8], Asia [9], Africa [10], South America [11], Irrigation [12], Agriculture [13], Livestock [14], Fisheries [15], Drought [16], Climate Change [17], Waterlogging [18], Land Degradation [19], Wheat [20], Rice [21]

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