Water Footprint of Crop Productions

Dear Colleagues,

 Increasing global food demand has had major impacts on agricultural water management strategies during the past several decades. The resulting alterations often have helped to increase crop yields and total food production. However, it has not been without ecological consequences such as extensive overexploitation or contamination of limited freshwater resources.

The use of water for agriculture is increasing the severity of water scarcity in most areas and causing shortages even in areas having access to sufficient water resources but may suffer scarcities at certain times of the year or in specific years. Moreover, climate change is expected to disrupt hydrological regimes and the availability of fresh water, a fact that impacts both rainfed and irrigated agriculture. This is why water scarcity has received global attention recently as the most urgent food security issue.

Therefore, the aim of this Special Issue is to gather novel and recent studies looking at the water footprint of crop production. We are particularly interested in the use of the concept of water footprint to address water management challenges in agriculture in different geographical and climate settings. Submissions should seek to make progress in the application of water footprint studies in scarcity, sustainability, security, uncertainty, and equity studies on the field, basin, national, or global scales using in-situ, modelling, and remote sensing methods.

All types of manuscripts (original research, reviews, etc.) are welcome.

Dr. Hamideh Nouri
Dr. Alejandro Galindo
Guest Editors

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• water footprint assessment
• water scarcity
• water and food security
• sustainability
• water productivity
• uncertainty and ambiguity
• water footprint reduction strategies