A5089701851- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Water resources management and optimization
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Landslides and related hazards
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Land Rights and Reforms
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Tree Root and Stability Studies
- Cryospheric studies and observations
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Aeolian processes and effects
- Photovoltaic Systems and Sustainability
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Transboundary Water Resource Management
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Energy and Environment Impacts
Politecnico di Milano
2016-2025
University of Milan
2025
University of California, Berkeley
2020-2022
Bellingham Technical College
2018
Instituto Politécnico Nacional
2011
Abstract Water availability is a major factor constraining humanity's ability to meet the future food and energy needs of growing increasingly affluent human population. plays an important role in production energy, including renewable sources extraction unconventional fossil fuels that are expected become players security. The emergent competition for water between systems recognized concept “food‐energy‐water nexus.” nexus made even more complex by globalization agriculture rapid growth...
Societal pressure on the global land and freshwater resources is increasing as a result of rising food demand by growing human population, dietary changes, enhancement biofuel production induced oil prices recent changes in United States European Union bioethanol policies. Many countries corporations have started to acquire relatively inexpensive productive agricultural located foreign countries, evidenced dramatic increase number transnational deals between 2005 2009. Often known "land...
We advance the notion of agricultural economic water scarcity to identify where irrigation expansion may increase food production.
Abstract Recent energy security strategies, investment opportunities and policies have led to an escalation in biofuel consumption at the expenses of food crops pastureland. To evaluate important impacts biofuels on security, food-energy nexus needs be investigated context its linkages with overall human appropriation land water resources. Here we provide a global assessment crop production, reconstruct patterns crop/oil trade determine associated displacement use. We find that bioethanol is...
Rural populations around the world rely on small-scale farming and other uses of land natural resources, which are often governed by customary, traditional, indigenous systems common property. In recent years, large-scale acquisitions have drastically expanded; it is unclear whether commons a preferential target these acquisitions. Here we argue that contemporary global "land rush" could be happening at expense common-property world. While there evidence developed traditional institutions...
Significance Water’s ability to generate value in irrigated agriculture remains poorly quantified at the global scale. The valuation of irrigation water is an important piece information not only for agribusiness investors interested acquisition land and entitlements but also farmers rural communities that are negotiating with such investors. To make informed decision about or relinquishment rights investments infrastructure there a need better understanding generated by using methods rely...
Tropical forests are undergoing land use change in many regions of the world, including African continent. Human populations living close to forest margins fragmented and disturbed by deforestation may be particularly exposed zoonotic infections because higher likelihood for humans contact with disease reservoirs. Quantitative analysis nexus between emergence Ebola virus (EVD), however, is still missing. Here we cover data conjunction EVD outbreak records investigate association recent...
Large-scale acquisitions of agricultural land in developing countries have been rapidly increasing the last 10 years, contributing to a major agrarian transition from subsistence or small scale farming large-scale commercial agriculture by agribusiness transnational corporations. Likely driven recent food crises, new bioenergy policies, and financial speculations, this phenomenon has often investigated economic development, human right, tenure security perspectives, while its hydrologic...
Water is a major factor limiting crop production in many regions around the world. Irrigation can greatly enhance yields, but local availability and timing of freshwater resources constrains ability humanity to increase food production. Innovations irrigation infrastructure have allowed utilize previously inaccessible water resources, enhancing withdrawals for agriculture while increasing pressure on environmental flows other human uses. While substantial additional will be required support...
Climate change is expected to affect crop production worldwide, particularly in rain-fed agricultural regions. It still unknown how irrigation water needs will a warmer planet and where freshwater be locally available expand without depleting resources. Here, we identify the cropping systems that hold greatest potential for investment expansion because likely suffice demand. Using projections of renewable availability demand under warming scenarios, target regions may sustain climate change....
Abstract Recent studies have highlighted the reliance of global food production on unsustainable irrigation practices, which deplete freshwater stocks and environmental flows, consequently impair aquatic ecosystems. Unsustainable is driven by domestic international demand for agricultural products. Research consequences trade has often concentrated displacement pollution land use, while effect water sustainability drying over-depleted watercourses seldom been recognized quantified. Here we...
Water is crucial for meeting sustainability targets, but its unsustainable use threatens human wellbeing and the environment. Past assessments of water scarcity (i.e., demand in exceedance availability) have often been spatially coarse temporally limited, reducing their utility targeting interventions. Here we perform a detailed monthly sub-basin assessment evolution blue surface ground) (years 1980-2015) world's three most populous countries – China, India, USA. Disaggregating by specific...
Both rainfall intensity and duration take part in determining the hydrologic conditions favorable to occurrence of shallow landslides. Hydrogeomorphic models slope stability generally account for dependence landsliding on soil mechanical topographic factors, while role is seldom considered within a process‐based approach. To investigate effect different climate drivers stability, we developed modeling framework that accounts variability extreme rate with events. The component includes key...
Heavy rainstorms are a major control of shallow landsliding in mountainous areas. The influence three‐dimensional (3‐D) variability precipitation is analyzed by coupling fine‐resolution atmospheric model (RAMS) with topographic (DEM) to represent the 3‐D flux generating catastrophic flood that occurred Versilia, central Italy, on 19 June 1996. Matching this observed scars and debris shows 92% mass movements where normalized exceeds 0.80 less then 2% null. These results give an insight...
Ensuring food security requires production and distribution systems function throughout disruptions. Understanding the factors that contribute to global system's ability respond adapt such disruptions (i.e. resilience) is critical for understanding long-term sustainability of human populations. Variable impacts shocks on supply between countries indicate a need national-scale resilience indicators can provide comparisons. However, methods tracking changes in have had limited application...
Since small-scale farmers manage most of the cultivated land worldwide, ongoing shift in systems production associated with large-scale acquisitions (LSLAs) may dramatically reshape world's agrarian landscape, significantly impacting rural populations and their livelihoods. The societal, hydrological environmental implications resulting from expansion agricultural production, through LSLAs, make ultimate sustainability questionable. This study, a literature review, analyses negative impacts...
Global demands on agricultural land are increasing due to population growth, dietary changes and the use of biofuels. Their effect food security is reduce humans' ability cope with uncertainties global climate change. In light 2008 crisis, secure reliable future access sufficient land, many nations corporations have begun purchasing large tracts in South, a phenomenon deemed "land grabbing" by popular media. Because investors frequently export crops without providing adequate employment,...
The increasing demand for agricultural products and the uncertainty of international food markets has recently drawn attention governments agribusiness firms toward investments in productive land, mostly developing world. targeted countries are typically located regions that have remained only marginally utilized because lack modern technology. It is expected long run large scale land acquisitions (LSLAs) commercial farming will bring technology required to close existing crops yield gaps....
Humanity faces the grand challenge of feeding a growing, more affluent population in coming decades while reducing environmental burden agriculture. Approaches that integrate food security and goals offer promise for achieving sustainable global system, yet little work has been done to link potential solutions with agricultural policies. Taking case cereal production India, we use process-based crop water model government data on nutrient content assess implications various crop-shifting...