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1 Singh, P.; Ahlawat, I. P. S.; Gautam, R. C. (Eds.) 2004. Second International Agronomy Congress “Balancing Food and Environmental Security: A Continuing Challenge,” New Delhi, India, 26-30 November 2002. Proceedings of Second International Agronomy Congress organized by Indian Society of Agronomy & Indian Council of Agricultural Research. vi, 291p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 630 G000 SIN Record No: H037774)
2 Singh, P. 2004. Food and environmental security – A continuing challenge: Presidential address. In Singh, P.; Ahlawat, I. P. S.; Gautam, R. C. (Eds.), Second International Agronomy Congress “Balancing Food and Environmental Security: A Continuing Challenge,” New Delhi, India, 26-30 November 2002 - Proceedings. pp.i-vi.
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3 GLP (Global Land Project) 2005. Science plan and implementation strategy. Stockholm, Sweden: IGBP Secretariat. 64p. (IGBP report 53 / IHDP report 19)
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 333 G000 GLP Record No: H037950)
4 Leach, M.; Scoones, I.; Wynne, B. (Eds.) 2005. Science and citizens: Globalization and the challenge of engagement. London, UK: Zed. viii, 294 p.
(Location: IWMI-HQ Call no: 306.45 G000 LEA Record No: H038325)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 630 G000 HAZ Record No: H040227)
6 Gitay, H.; Chambers, W. B.; Baste, I.; Carr, E. R.; ten Have, C.; Stabrawa, A.; Sharma, N.; De Oliveira, T.; Wilson, C.; Boyer, B.; Bruch, C.; Finlayson, Max; Fobil, J. N.; Garcia, K.; Galarza, E. P.; Kim, J. A.; Eamer, J.; Watson, R.; Bauer, S.; Gorobets, A.; Chazhong, G.; Perelet, R. A.; Manguiat, M. S. Z.; Moreda, B. I. G.; McCormick, S.; Namutebi, C.; Patel, N.; de Jong, A. 2007. Interlinkages: Governance for sustainability. In UNEP Global Environment Outlook 4: Environment for Development. Nairobi, Kenya: UNEP. pp.361-394.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: IWMI 363.7 G000 GIT Record No: H040573)
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7 von Braun, J.; Diaz-Bonilla, E. (Eds.) 2008. Globalization of food and agriculture and the poor. New Delhi, India: Oxford University Press. 370p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 338.19 G000 VON Record No: H041465)
8 Horlemann, L.; Neubert, S. 2007. Virtual Water Trade: A realistic concept for resolving the water crisis? Tulpenfeld, Bonn, Germany: German Development Institute (DIE) 118p. (German Development Institute Studies 25)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: e-copy only Record No: H041469)
9 Babu, S. C.; Djalalov, S. (Eds.) 2006. Policy reforms and agriculture development in Central Asia. New York, NY, USA: Springer. 494p. (Natural Resource Management and Policy)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 338.1 G770 BAB Record No: H042060)
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10 Mukhamadiev, B.; Akhmedov, U. 2006. Globalization, water and changing policies in the Aral Sea Basin. In Babu, S. C.; Djalalov, S. (Eds.). Policy reforms and agriculture development in Central Asia. New York, NY, USA: Springer. pp.171-180. (Natural Resource Management and Policy)
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11 Sampford, C. 2009. Water rights and water governance: a cautionary tale and the case for interdisciplinary governance. In Llamas, M. R.; Martinez-Cortina, L.; Mukherji, Aditi. (Eds.). Water ethics: Marcelino Botin Water Forum 2007. Leiden, Netherlands: CRC Press. pp.45-67.
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12 da Cunha, L. V. 2009. Water: a human right or an economic resource? In Llamas, M. R.; Martinez-Cortina, L.; Mukherji, Aditi. (Eds.). Water ethics: Marcelino Botin Water Forum 2007. Leiden, Netherlands: CRC Press. pp.97-113.
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13 Ringler, C.; Biswas, A. K.; Cline, S. A. (Eds.) 2010. Global change: impacts on water and food security. Berlin, Germany: Springer. 265p. (Water Resources Development and Management)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 RIN Record No: H043389)
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14 Brauch, H. G.; Spring, U. O.; Grin, J.; Mesjasz, C.; Kameri-Mbote, P.; Behera, N. C.; Chourou, B.; Krummenacher, H. (Eds.) 2009. Facing global environmental change: environmental, human, energy, food, health and water security concepts. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer. 1586p. (Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace Vol. 4)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 363.7 G000 BRA Record No: H043458)
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(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 333.91 G000 HOE Record No: H043484)
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16 Gijsbers, G. W. 2009. Agricultural innovation in Asia: drivers, paradigms and performance. Thesis. Rotterdam, Netherlands: Erasmus University. Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM) 331p. (ERIM PhD Series - Research in Management)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 630.7 G570 GIJ Record No: H043674)
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This study of agricultural innovation in Asia analyses how internationalization, institutions and technologies relate to different paradigms, and how different combinations of innovation paradigms are present in different countries.
17 Bruinsma, J. (Ed.) 2003. World agriculture: towards 2015/2030: an FAO perspective. London, UK: Earthscan. 432p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 630 G000 BRU Record No: H043696)
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18 Yang, H.; Zehnder, A. J. B. 2011. Globalization of water resources through virtual water trade. In Garrido, A.; Ingram, H. (Eds.). Water for food in a changing world. London, UK: Routledge. pp.117-132. (Contributions from the Rosenberg International Forum on Water Policy)
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: 363.61 G100 GAR Record No: H043983)
19 Chapagain, A. K. 2006. Globalisation of water: opportunities and threats of virtual water trade. PhD thesis. Rotterdam, Netherlands: A. A. Balkema. 148p.
(Location: IWMI HQ Call no: D 333.91 G000 CHA Record No: H044003)
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Where the river basin is generally seen as the appropriate unit for analyzing freshwater availability and use, it becomes increasingly important to put freshwater issues in a global context. The book analyses the opportunities and threats of international virtual water trade in the context of solving national and regional problems of water shortages. Central questions addressed in the study are: What are the fluxes of virtual water related to the international trade of products? Is the import of virtual water a solution to water-scarce nations or merely a threat of becoming water dependent? Can the international trade of products be a tool to enhance water use efficiency globally, or, is it a way of shifting the environmental burdens to a distant location? To understand the global component of fresh water demand and supply, a set of indicators has been developed. The framework thus developed has been applied to different case studies. An estimated 16% of the global water use is not for producing domestically consumed products but products for export. With increasing globalisation of trade, global water interdependencies and overseas externalities are likely to increase. At the same time liberalisation of trade creates opportunities to increase global water use efficiency and physical water savings. Many nations save domestic water resources by importing water-intensive products and exporting commodities that are less water intensive. As a result of product trades from more productive sites to the less productive sites, there is a saving of 6 per cent of the global water use in agriculture. The study explores the use of virtual water transfers as an alternative to large scale inter-basin real water transfers has been analysed in a case study for China along with some major product studies such as coffee, tea and cotton products. The consumption of a product is connected to a chain of impacts on the water resources in the countries where it is grown and processed. The study has estimated the water footprint of worldwide consumption. Detailed impact study has been carried out for the case of cotton. It identifies both the location and the character of the impacts. The research distinguishes between three types of impact: evaporation of infiltrated rainwater for cotton growth (green water use), withdrawal of ground- or surface water for irrigation or processing (blue water use) and water pollution during growth or processing. Given the general lack of proper water pricing mechanisms or other ways of transmitting production-information, cotton consumers have little incentive to take responsibility for the impacts on remote water systems. It is found that the international trade has indirectly enhanced the global water use efficiency and helped to address the national water scarcity in some water-poor countries by saving national water resources. However, this was possible at the cost of increased water dependencies between nations. The existing indicators of water use are not sufficient to address the effect of consumption on water resources. It is proposed to use the concept of water footprint to understand the real appropriation of water by a nation and also to understand the chain of impacts on global water resources as a result of local consumption. The future trade negotiations should undertake the notion that trade is not only a tool of global economic development; it can also be a means of externalising the water footprint and thus shifting environmental burdens to distant locations.
20 Adhikary, M.; Chowdhury, S. 2010. Virtual water trade, sustainability and territorial equity across phases of globalisation in India. Environmental Values, 19:33-56.
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The aim of this paper is to bring out the effect of economic reforms introduced in India on the direction of virtual water trade (through trade of agricultural products). The study also identifies the dual role that virtual water has in an economy. It is a source of export earnings (benefit side), but at the same time there is a loss of virtual water (cost side) through agricultural trade. The study is novel in the sense that it not only identifies the trade-off between benefits and costs of virtual water trade for India, but also tries to capture the impact of phases of globalisation on the trade-off. The cost side has serious implications on sustainability and territorial equity. In order to address the issues more coherently, we have to introduce a concept of virtual water miles. Then we argue with intuitive reasoning about the possible effects of virtual water trade on sustainability as well as on territorial equity.
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