Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT
Volume 31, Issue 3, Pages 343-359Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/07900627.2015.1026436
Keywords
water balance; West Asia; ecosystem accounting; North Africa; scarcity; water-energy-food-climate nexus
Categories
Funding
- USAID through ICARDA's Water and Livelihoods Initiative
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Existing strategies for management of water scarcity in the Middle East and North Africa negotiate a complex system of trade-offs between water, energy, and food production. The effects of rural households' green water management practices on basin-level water, energy, food and carbon stocks and flows are sketched qualitatively in six basin agro-ecosystems. The case for increased strategic support for green agricultural water management practices appears stronger when weighed from the nexus perspective, rather than purely from the point of view of water balance and food production. Trade-offs under critical transitions affecting agricultural water use are explored, and the scope for quantitative monitoring is discussed.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available