Sustainability, efficiency, equity and resilience of land and water use for global food and energy security: synergies and fundamental trade-offs

Project Information

EARTH@LTERNATIVES

Grant agreement ID: 834716

DOI 10.3030/834716

Project closed

EC signature date 9 April 2019

Start date 1 September 2019

End date 30 November 2020

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 462 407,50

EU contribution € 462 407,50

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITEIT TWENTE
Netherlands

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (19)

Changing global cropping patterns to minimize national blue water scarcity

Author(s): Hatem Chouchane, Maarten S. Krol, Arjen Y. Hoekstra
Published in: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, Issue 24/6, 2020, Page(s) 3015-3031, ISSN 1607-7938
Publisher: Hydrology and Earth System Sciences
DOI: 10.5194/hess-24-3015-2020

China's Food Supply Sources Under Trade Conflict With the United States and Limited Domestic Land and Water Resources

Author(s): Wenfeng Liu, Hong Yang, Philippe Ciais, Matti Kummu, Arjen Y. Hoekstra
Published in: Earth's Future, Issue 8/3, 2020, ISSN 2328-4277
Publisher: Wiley Online Library
DOI: 10.1029/2020ef001482

Reduce blue water scarcity and increase nutritional and economic water productivity through changing the cropping pattern in a catchment

Author(s): H. Nouri, B. Stokvis, S. Chavoshi Borujeni, A. Galindo, M. Brugnach, M.L. Blatchford, S. Alaghmand, A.Y. Hoekstra
Published in: Journal of Hydrology, Issue 588, 2020, Page(s) 125086, ISSN 0022-1694
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.125086

Reducing food waste and changing cropping patterns to reduce water consumption and pollution in cereal production in Iran

Author(s): Fatemeh Karandish, Arjen.Y. Hoekstra, Rick J. Hogeboom
Published in: Journal of Hydrology, Issue 586, 2020, Page(s) 124881, ISSN 0022-1694
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2020.124881

Physical versus virtual water transfers to overcome local water shortages: A comparative analysis of impacts

Author(s): Fatemeh Karandish, Rick J. Hogeboom, Arjen Y. Hoekstra
Published in: Advances in Water Resources, Issue 147, 2021, Page(s) 103811, ISSN 0309-1708
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2020.103811

Water-saving agriculture can deliver deep water cuts for China

Author(s): Guorui Huang, Arjen Y. Hoekstra, Maarten S. Krol, Jonas Jägermeyr, Alejandro Galindo, Chaoqing Yu, Ranran Wang
Published in: Resources, Conservation and Recycling, Issue 154, 2020, Page(s) 104578, ISSN 0921-3449
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2019.104578

Global Phosphorus Losses from Croplands under Future Precipitation Scenarios

Author(s): Wenfeng Liu, Philippe Ciais, Xingcai Liu, Hong Yang, Arjen Y. Hoekstra, Qiuhong Tang, Xuhui Wang, Xiaodong Li, Lei Cheng
Published in: Environmental Science & Technology, Issue 54/22, 2020, Page(s) 14761-14771, ISSN 0013-936X
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.0c03978

Treenuts and groundnuts in the EAT-Lancet reference diet: Concerns regarding sustainable water use

Author(s): Davy Vanham, Mesfin M. Mekonnen, Arjen Y. Hoekstra
Published in: Global Food Security, Issue 24, 2020, Page(s) 100357, ISSN 2211-9124
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.gfs.2020.100357

Building consensus on water use assessment of livestock production systems and supply chains: Outcome and recommendations from the FAO LEAP Partnership

Author(s): Anne-Marie Boulay, Katrin Drastig, Amanullah, Ashok Chapagain, Veronica Charlon, Bárbara Civit, Camillo DeCamillis, Marlos De Souza, Tim Hess, Arjen Y. Hoekstra, Ridha Ibidhi, Michael J. Lathuillière, Alessandro Manzardo, Tim McAllister, Ricardo A. Morales, Masaharu Motoshita, Julio Cesar Pascale Palhares, Giacomo Pirlo, Brad Ridoutt, Valentina Russo, Gloria Salmoral, Ranvir Singh, Davy Vanham,
Published in: Ecological Indicators, Issue 124, 2021, Page(s) 107391, ISSN 1470-160X
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.107391

The Water Footprint Concept and Water's Grand Environmental Challenges

Author(s): Rick J. Hogeboom
Published in: One Earth, Issue 2/3, 2020, Page(s) 218-222, ISSN 2590-3322
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2020.02.010

Capping Human Water Footprints in the World's River Basins

Author(s): Rick J. Hogeboom, Davey Bruin, Joep F. Schyns, Maarten S. Krol, Arjen Y. Hoekstra
Published in: Earth's Future, Issue 8/2, 2020, ISSN 2328-4277
Publisher: American Geophysical Union Publications, Wiley
DOI: 10.1029/2019ef001363

Water for maize for pigs for pork: An analysis of inter-provincial trade in China

Author(s): La Zhuo, Yilin Liu, Hong Yang, Arjen Y. Hoekstra, Wenfeng Liu, Xinchun Cao, Mengru Wang, Pute Wu
Published in: Water Research, Issue 166, 2019, Page(s) 115074, ISSN 0043-1354
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2019.115074

Environmental footprint family to address local to planetary sustainability and deliver on the SDGs

Author(s): Davy Vanham, Adrian Leip, Alessandro Galli, Thomas Kastner, Martin Bruckner, Aimable Uwizeye, Kimo van Dijk, Ertug Ercin, Carole Dalin, Miguel Brandão, Simone Bastianoni, Kai Fang, Allison Leach, Ashok Chapagain, Marijn Van der Velde, Serenella Sala, Rana Pant, Lucia Mancini, Fabio Monforti-Ferrario, Gema Carmona-Garcia, Alexandra Marques, Franz Weiss, Arjen Y. Hoekstra
Published in: Science of The Total Environment, Issue 693, 2019, Page(s) 133642, ISSN 0048-9697
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.133642

Consideration of culture is vital if we are to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

Author(s): Xinzhu Zheng, Ranran Wang, Arjen Y. Hoekstra, Maarten S. Krol, Yaxin Zhang, Kaidi Guo, Mukul Sanwal, Zhen Sun, Junming Zhu, Junjie Zhang, Amanda Lounsbury, Xunzhang Pan, Dabo Guan, Edgar G. Hertwich, Can Wang
Published in: One Earth, Issue 4/2, 2021, Page(s) 307-319, ISSN 2590-3322
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.oneear.2021.01.012

Water productivity benchmarks: The case of maize and soybean in Nebraska

Author(s): Mesfin M. Mekonnen, Arjen Y. Hoekstra, Christopher M.U. Neale, Chittaranjan Ray, Haishun S. Yang
Published in: Agricultural Water Management, Issue 234, 2020, Page(s) 106122, ISSN 0378-3774
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2020.106122

Integrating partial root-zone drying and saline water irrigation to sustain sunflower production in freshwater-scarce regions

Author(s): Khaleghi M., Hassanpour F., Karandish F., Shahnazari A.
Published in: Agricultural water management, 2020, ISSN 0378-3774
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2020.106094

Resilience Meets the Water–Energy–Food Nexus: Mapping the Research Landscape

Author(s): Rick J. Hogeboom, Bas W. Borsje, Mekdelawit M. Deribe, Freek D. van der Meer, Seyedabdolhossein Mehvar, Markus A. Meyer, Gül Özerol, Arjen Y. Hoekstra, Andy D. Nelson
Published in: Frontiers in Environmental Science, Issue 9, 2021, ISSN 2296-665X
Publisher: Frontiers Media S.A.
DOI: 10.3389/fenvs.2021.630395

Water scarcity and fish imperilment driven by beef production

Author(s): Brian D. Richter, Dominique Bartak, Peter Caldwell, Kyle Frankel Davis, Peter Debaere, Arjen Y. Hoekstra, Tianshu Li, Landon Marston, Ryan McManamay, Mesfin M. Mekonnen, Benjamin L. Ruddell, Richard R. Rushforth, Tara J. Troy
Published in: Nature Sustainability, Issue 3/4, 2020, Page(s) 319-328, ISSN 2398-9629
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
DOI: 10.1038/s41893-020-0483-z

Sustainability of the blue water footprint of crops

Author(s): Mesfin M. Mekonnen, Arjen Y. Hoekstra
Published in: Advances in Water Resources, Issue 143, 2020, Page(s) 103679, ISSN 0309-1708
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.advwatres.2020.103679

Book chapters (1)

China’s crop-related water footprint and trade

Author(s): La Zhuo, Mesfin M. Mekonnen, Arjen Y. Hoekstra
Published in: Water Resources and Economic Processes, 2020, Page(s) 165-198, ISBN 9780429025013
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9780429025013-11