Irrigation is the most important water use sector accounting for about 70% of the global
freshwater withdrawals and 90% of consumptive water uses. While the extent of irrigation and …

Growing interest in global environmental issues has led to the need for global and regional
assessment of water resources. A global water assessment model called “WaterGAP 2” is …

Currently, almost 90% of the global water consumption is for irrigation purposes, and more
than 40% of the crops are produced under irrigated conditions. In order to assess the future …

The distance between the origin and end-point of food supply chains, and the ‘localness’ of
food systems, are key considerations of many narratives associated with sustainability. Yet, …

Increasing population and consumption are placing unprecedented demands on agriculture
and natural resources. Today, approximately a billion people are chronically malnourished …

Urbanization contributes to the loss of the world's biodiversity and the homogenization of its
biota. However, comparative studies of urban biodiversity leading to robust generalities of …

Aim To map and characterize anthropogenic transformation of the terrestrial biosphere
before and during the Industrial Revolution, from 1700 to 2000. Location Global. Methods …

To support global‐scale assessments that are sensitive to agricultural land use, we developed
the global data set of monthly irrigated and rainfed crop areas around the year 2000 (…

Reducing food losses and waste is considered to be one of the most promising measures to
improve food security in the coming decades. Food losses also affect our use of resources, …

Crop production requires large amounts of green and blue water. We developed the new
global crop water model GCWM to compute consumptive water use (evapotranspiration) and …