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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, ...
Food banks against climate change, a solution that works: a case study in Navarra, Spain
(MDPI, 2022)
Artículo / Artikulua,
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 ...
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)
info:eu-repo/semantics/article,
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 ...
Different approaches to assessing pollution load: the case of nitrogen-related grey water footprint of barley and soybean in Argentina
(MDPI, 2021)
info:eu-repo/semantics/article,
Agriculture is among the main causes of water pollution. Currently, 75% of global anthropogenic nitrogen (N) loads come from leaching/runoff from cropland. The grey water footprint (GWF) is an indicator of water resource ...
Water footprint and virtual water trade of maize in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina
(MDPI, 2021)
info:eu-repo/semantics/article,
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 ...
Hacia una alimentación saludable y sostenible
(Academia Española de Nutrición y Dietética, 2021)
info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject,
El objetivo de este estudio es identificar un conjunto de indicadores para evaluar dietas saludables sostenibles, analizando las deficiencias más comunes desde una perspectiva de salud, ambiental y socioeconómica. Para ...
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 importance of irrigation supply chains within the water footprint: an example from the Pakistani part of the Indus basin
(Taylor & Francis, 2023)
Artículo / Artikulua,
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 ...
Water footprint and virtual water trade: the birth and growth of a new research field in Spain
(MDPI, 2020)
Artículo / Artikulua,
The growth in the number of studies applying and expanding the concepts of the water
footprint and virtual water trade in Spain has generated a wealth of lessons and reflections about
the scarcity, allocation, productive ...