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Growing more food with less water: how can revitalizing Asia's irrigation help? Full text
2012
Mukherji, Aditi | Facon, T. | Fraiture, Charlotte de | Molden, David J. | Chartres, Colin J.
Growing more food with less water: how can revitalizing Asia's irrigation help? Full text
2012
Mukherji, Aditi | Facon, T. | Fraiture, Charlotte de | Molden, David J. | Chartres, Colin J.
Asia accounts for 70% of the world's irrigated area and is home to some of the oldest and largest irrigation schemes. While these irrigation schemes played an important role in ensuring food security for billions of people in the past, their current state of affairs leaves much to be desired. This paper takes forward the IWMI–FAO–ADB (Asian Development Bank) recommendation of a five-pronged approach for revitalizing Asia's irrigation and provides a region-specific road map for doing this. The underlying principle of these multiple strategies is the belief that the public institutions at the heart of irrigation management in Asia need to give up comfortable rigidity and engage with individual users' needs and the demands placed by larger societal changes.
Show more [+] Less [-]Growing more food with less water: how can revitalizing Asia's irrigation help? Full text
2012
Mukherji, Aditi | Facon, T. | Fraiture, Charlotte de | David, S. | Chartres, Colin J.
Asia accounts for 70% of the world's irrigated area and is home to some of the oldest and largest irrigation schemes. While these irrigation schemes played an important role in ensuring food security for billions of people in the past, their current state of affairs leaves much to be desired. This paper takes forward the IWMI-FAO-ADB (Asian Development Bank) recommendation of a five pronged approach for revitalizing Asia's irrigation and provides a region specific road map for doing this. The underlying principle of these multiple strategies is the belief that the public institutions at the heart of irrigation management in Asia need to give up comfortable rigidity and engage with individual users' needs and the demands placed by larger societal chang.
Show more [+] Less [-]Urbanization affects water and nitrogen use in the food chain in China
2012
Qin, W. | Ma, L. | Zhang, F.S. | Oenema, O.
ABSTRACT Urbanization and agriculture are highly coupled. However, the impacts of urbanization(e.g. transformation in urban and rural population and change in diet) on water and nitrogen (N) use remain poorly understood. The objectives of this study are to quantify water flows in the food chain of China, to analyze the complex relationship between urbanization and water and N use efficiency, and to project water and N demand in China via various scenarios, using a combination of water footprint approach and the food chain model NUFER. In 2006, China consumed in total about 857 km3 of water and 49 Tg of N, in which 132 km3 of water (15%) and 15 Tg of N (31%) were imported (as feed and food) , and 21 km3 of water (2.4%) and 5 Tg of N (10%) were exported (as feed and food). Besides that, if Chinese diet increases, especially with animal protein intake, to current European (EU-27) level, water and N use will have to increase to approximately 1600 km3 and 70 Tg, respectively. We concluded that urbanization plan in China must consider its impacts on water and N uses in the food chain, as ignoring these effects will lead to biased interpretations and unsustainable development.
Show more [+] Less [-]Water management and food production in China and India: a comparative assessment
2012
Cai, Ximing; Rosegrant, Mark W.
PR | IFPRI3; ISI; Environment and Natural Resource Management | EPTD | Journal article
Show more [+] Less [-]Coping with water scarcity: an action framework for agriculture and food security Full text
2012
Producing more food with less water in a changing world: assessment of water productivity in 10 major river basins.
2012
Xueliang Cai | Molden, David J. | Mainuddin, M. | Sharma, Bharat R. | Ahmad, M.D. | Karimi, P.
Producing more food with less water in a changing world: assessment of water productivity in 10 major river basins.
2012
Xueliang Cai | Molden, David J. | Mainuddin, M. | Sharma, Bharat R. | Ahmad, M.D. | Karimi, P.
Producing more food with less water in a changing world: assessment of water productivity in 10 major river basins
2012
Xueliang Cai | David, S. | Mainuddin, M. | Sharma, Bharat R. | Ahmad, M.D. | Karimi, Poolad
Impact on food security and rural development of transferring water out of agriculture
2012
Rosegrant, Mark W.; Ringler, Claudia
IFPRI-3; ISI | PR | EPTD | Journal article
Show more [+] Less [-]Microbial Contamination Analysis for Drinking Water, Foodstuff, and Cooked Food for Foodservice Operation
2012
Cho, S.K., Gachon University, Seongnam, Republic of Korea | Park, J.H., Gachon University, Seongnam, Republic of Korea
In order to evaluate the microbial safety of the foodstuffs and manus in regards to foodservice operations, the total of 1,051 samples of drinking waters, vegetables, and cooked foods were collected. Total viable count (TVC), coliform group, and pathogens were analyzed. Twenty five percent samples of 441 drinking waters showed high contamination of above 2 log CFU/g TVC. Twenty percent of the waters were contaminated by above one log CFU/g coliform. Forty percent of non-heated food, Moochim, were contaminated by above 5 log CFU/g TVC and 26% of Moochim were contaminated by above 2 log CFU/g coliform. Bacillus cereus and Eschericia coli were detected on boiled rice and kimchi, and B. cereus was detected with a high ratio. Therefore, the foodstuffs and manus regarding foodservice operations appear to be generally safe. However, efficient microbial control for drinking water and Moochim-style food is necessary and in particular, careful management to reduce microbial contamination should be applied to drinking water.
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