A5081299715- Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
- Climate change impacts on agriculture
- Water resources management and optimization
- Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact
- Environmental Impact and Sustainability
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Agricultural risk and resilience
- Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement
- Agricultural Innovations and Practices
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Energy and Environment Impacts
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Land Rights and Reforms
- Global Energy and Sustainability Research
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Climate variability and models
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability
- Oil Palm Production and Sustainability
- Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations
- Agricultural Economics and Practices
- Agricultural Development and Policies
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Sugarcane Cultivation and Processing
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
University of Delaware
2019-2025
Pearson (United States)
2024
Broad Institute
2024
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
2023
Murata (Finland)
2022
University of Nottingham
2022
Virginia Tech
2022
United States Department of Commerce
2022
Columbia University
2016-2021
University of Stuttgart
2021
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...
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...
Agriculture is fundamental to all three pillars of sustainability, environment, society, and economy. However, the definition sustainable agriculture capacities measure it remain elusive. Independent transparent measurements national sustainability are needed gauge progress, encourage accountability, inform policy. Here, we developed a Sustainable Matrix (SAM) quantify performance indicators in investigate trade-offs synergies based on historical data for most countries world. The results...
Abstract The expansion of irrigated agriculture has increased global crop production but resulted in widespread stress on freshwater resources. Ensuring that increases occur only places where water is relatively abundant a key objective sustainable and knowledge how land evolved important for measuring progress towards sustainability. Yet, spatially detailed understanding the evolution area equipped irrigation (AEI) missing. In this study, we used latest subnational statistics (covering...
Abstract Persistent overuse of water supplies from the Colorado River during recent decades has substantially depleted large storage reservoirs and triggered mandatory cutbacks in use. The river holds critical importance to more than 40 million people two hectares cropland. Therefore, a full accounting where river’s goes en route its delta is necessary. Detailed knowledge how used can aid design strategies plans for bringing use into balance with available supplies. Here we apply...
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...
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,...
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...
Migration is a powerful adaptive strategy for humans to navigate hardship and pursue better quality of life. As universal vehicle facilitating exchanges ideas, culture, money goods, international migration major contributor globalization. Consisting countries linked by multiple connections human movements, global constitutes network. Despite the important role in connecting various communities different parts world, topology behavior network its changes through time remain poorly understood....
Significance Substantial growth in food production has occurred from a narrowing diversity of crops over the last 50 y. Agricultural policies have largely focused on single objective maximizing with less attention given to nutrition, climate, and environment. Decisions about sustainable systems require quantifying assessing multiple dimensions together. In India, diversifying crop include more coarse cereals, such as millets sorghum, can make supply nutritious, reduce resource demand...
Climate change is expected to impact the habitability of many places around world in significant and unprecedented ways coming decades. While previous studies have provided estimates populations potentially exposed various climate impacts, little work has been done assess number people that may actually be displaced or where they will choose go. Here we modify a diffusion-based model human mobility combination with population, geographic, climatic data estimate sources, destinations, flux...
Abstract Accurately assessing green and blue water requirements from croplands is fundamental to promote sustainable management. In the last decade, global hydrological models have provided important insights into patterns of for crop production. As as these are, they do not provide monthly crop-specific year-specific data requirements. Gridded products are therefore needed better understand spatial temporal evolution demand. Here, we present a gridded database (rain-fed) (irrigated) 23 main...