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Forty seven percent of the population of Pakistan is food insecure, access to food is uneven and malnutrition is widespread. In addition, food production depends greatly on irrigation, including the… Click to show full abstract
Forty seven percent of the population of Pakistan is food insecure, access to food is uneven and malnutrition is widespread. In addition, food production depends greatly on irrigation, including the use of substantial volumes of water from already stressed aquifers. Our aim in this paper is to examine the implications of continued population growth on the required production of food and the implied water demand.
Keywords:
production water;
use;
water;
agricultural production;
food
Journal Title: Agricultural Water Management
Year Published: 2017
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Journal Title: Agricultural Water Management
Year Published: 2017
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