Groundwater conservation and food security: Navigating pathways to sustainable agriculture
Most of the Earth’s liquid fresh water resources are stored as groundwater. Accessible groundwater resources are increasingly extracted for use in irrigated agriculture, industrial and domestic purposes—and constitute the globe’s most extracted natural resource. Irrigation accounts for the lion’s sh...
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| author | Singh, Vartika Ringler, Claudia |
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| description | Most of the Earth’s liquid fresh water resources are stored as groundwater. Accessible groundwater resources are increasingly extracted for use in irrigated agriculture, industrial and domestic purposes—and constitute the globe’s most extracted natural resource. Irrigation accounts for the lion’s share of groundwater use, and groundwater contributes around a third to 40% of total consumptive irrigation use. Irrigation, in turn, contributes 40% of global food production on just under one third of the world’s harvested area. Not surprisingly, groundwater management and food security are deeply interlinked. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1702432025-01-28T15:45:12Z Groundwater conservation and food security: Navigating pathways to sustainable agriculture Singh, Vartika Ringler, Claudia freshwater groundwater natural resources irrigation food security Most of the Earth’s liquid fresh water resources are stored as groundwater. Accessible groundwater resources are increasingly extracted for use in irrigated agriculture, industrial and domestic purposes—and constitute the globe’s most extracted natural resource. Irrigation accounts for the lion’s share of groundwater use, and groundwater contributes around a third to 40% of total consumptive irrigation use. Irrigation, in turn, contributes 40% of global food production on just under one third of the world’s harvested area. Not surprisingly, groundwater management and food security are deeply interlinked. 2024-07-15 2025-01-28T15:45:11Z 2025-01-28T15:45:11Z Blog Post https://hdl.handle.net/10568/170243 en Open Access International Food Policy Research Institute Singh, Vartika; and Ringler, Claudia. 2024. Groundwater conservation and food security: Navigating pathways to sustainable agriculture. IFPRI Blog. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://www.ifpri.org/blog/groundwater-conservation-and-food-security-navigating-pathways-to-sustainable-agriculture/ |
| spellingShingle | freshwater groundwater natural resources irrigation food security Singh, Vartika Ringler, Claudia Groundwater conservation and food security: Navigating pathways to sustainable agriculture |
| title | Groundwater conservation and food security: Navigating pathways to sustainable agriculture |
| title_full | Groundwater conservation and food security: Navigating pathways to sustainable agriculture |
| title_fullStr | Groundwater conservation and food security: Navigating pathways to sustainable agriculture |
| title_full_unstemmed | Groundwater conservation and food security: Navigating pathways to sustainable agriculture |
| title_short | Groundwater conservation and food security: Navigating pathways to sustainable agriculture |
| title_sort | groundwater conservation and food security navigating pathways to sustainable agriculture |
| topic | freshwater groundwater natural resources irrigation food security |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/170243 |
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