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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
卷 110, 期 3, 页码 892-897出版社
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1213163110
关键词
virtual water; water security; land tenure; foreign direct investment
资金
- African Growth and Development Policy Modeling Consortium
Societal pressure on the global land and freshwater resources is increasing as a result of the rising food demand by the growing human population, dietary changes, and the enhancement of biofuel production induced by the rising oil prices and recent changes in United States and European Union bioethanol policies. Many countries and corporations have started to acquire relatively inexpensive and productive agricultural land located in foreign countries, as evidenced by the dramatic increase in the number of transnational land deals between 2005 and 2009. Often known as land grabbing, this phenomenon is associated with an appropriation of freshwater resources that has never been assessed before. Herewe gather land-grabbing data from multiple sources and use a hydrological model to determine the associated rates of freshwater grabbing. We find that land and water grabbing are occurring at alarming rates in all continents except Antarctica. The per capita volume of grabbed water often exceeds the water requirements for a balanced diet and would be sufficient to improve food security and abate malnourishment in the grabbed countries. It is found that about 0.31 x 10(12) m(3).y(-1) of green water (i.e., rainwater) and up to 0.14 x 10(12) m(3).y(-1) of blue water (i.e., irrigation water) are appropriated globally for crop and livestock production in 47 x 10(6) ha of grabbed landworldwide (i.e., in 90% of the reported global grabbed land).
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