Competition for water induced by transnational land acquisitions for agriculture

Davide Danilo Chiarelli; Paolo D’Odorico; Marc F. Müller; Nathaniel D. Mueller; Kyle Frankel Davis; Jampel Dell’Angelo; Gopal Penny; Maria Cristina Rulli

doi:10.1038/s41467-022-28077-2

Nature Communications (Jan 2022)

Competition for water induced by transnational land acquisitions for agriculture

Davide Danilo Chiarelli,
Paolo D’Odorico,
Marc F. Müller,
Nathaniel D. Mueller,
Kyle Frankel Davis,
Jampel Dell’Angelo,
Gopal Penny,
Maria Cristina Rulli

Affiliations

Davide Danilo Chiarelli: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano
Paolo D’Odorico: Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California
Marc F. Müller: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Notre Dame
Nathaniel D. Mueller: Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability, Colorado State University
Kyle Frankel Davis: Department of Geography and Spatial Sciences, University of Delaware
Jampel Dell’Angelo: Department of Environmental Policy Analysis, Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Vrije Univeristeit Amsterdam
Gopal Penny: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences, University of Notre Dame
Maria Cristina Rulli: Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28077-2
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Water scarcity associated with large-scale land acquisitions is exacerbated by adoption of water-intensive crops and expansion of irrigation, which in turn increases rival water uses.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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