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The impact of the territorial gradient and the irrigation water price on agricultural production along the first phase of the Navarra Canal in Spain
(Elsevier, 2023)
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Water is an issue in Spain, where it is generally scarce, and its availability is highly variable in different areas and times, particularly in agriculture, the main water consumer. Water pricing is one of the policy ...
Food banks against climate change, a solution that works: a case study in Navarra, Spain
(MDPI, 2022)
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Worldwide, more than 1.3 billion tonnes of food are wasted each year, which is equivalent
to releasing 4.4 Gt of CO2 equivalents (CO2e). In this context, the Food Bank of Navarra (FBN)
annually avoids the waste of ...
Indicators and recommendations for assessing sustainable healthy diets
(MDPI, 2021)
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Research coupling human nutrition and sustainability concerns is a rapidly developing field, which is essential to guide governments' policies. This critical and comprehensive review analyzes indicators and approaches to ...
Hydro-environmental sustainability of crop production under socioeconomic drought
(MDPI, 2023)
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A comprehensive framework for revealing the jeopardization between SDGs 2 and 6 is provided in this study. Along with a water footprint (WF) assessment, the 30-years pattern of agricultural WFs and its hydro-environmental, ...
An academic analysis with recommendations for water management and planning at the basin scale: a review of water planning in the Segura River Basin
(Elsevier, 2019)
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Water resources management is particularly challenging in water-scarce basins, where low water availability is combined with a potential water demand exceeding the supply capacity of the natural system. This is the case ...
The importance of irrigation supply chains within the water footprint: an example from the Pakistani part of the Indus basin
(Taylor & Francis, 2023)
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Many environmental studies have shown that a systems approach, including complete supply chains, is relevant for the assessment of the consequences of production and consumption on natural resources. This can also be applied ...
Tracking water for human activities: from the ivory tower to the ground
(Elsevier, 2021)
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Water policy requires well established metrics for success. Precise metrics allow for quantifying progress and adjusting processes to produce the desired outcomes. We analyze the different schools of thought, nomenclatures ...
The role of the food banks in saving freshwater resources through reducing food waste: the case of the Food Bank of Navarra, Spain
(MDPI, 2022)
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In the year 2011, the FAO estimated that food loss and waste reached one third of the total food produced worldwide. Since then, numerous studies have been published characterizing this problem and reflecting on its ...
Water footprint and virtual water trade of maize in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina
(MDPI, 2021)
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Agriculture is the largest fresh water consuming sector, and maize is the most produced and consumed crop worldwide. The water footprint (WF) methodology quantifies and evaluates the water volumes consumed and polluted by ...
Integrated water resources management: new water & economic evaluation tools - application to Spain
(2014)
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The concept of integrated water resources management (IWRM) has gradually gained recognition over the last decades. This is largely because IWRM advocates a coordinated approach in a way that balances social and economic ...