Analysis of water footprint of potato production in the pampean region of Argentina

Rodríguez, Corina Iris; Galarreta, Víctor Alejandro Ruiz de; Kruse, Eduardo Emilio

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2014.11.075

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“…Hence, the high yielding of this crop is dependent on irrigation (Birch et al, 2012). Rodriguez et al (2015) found the water footprint of potato production reaching 324 m 3 /ton and concluded that an average value of 65 liter of water was consumed by potato assuming that one potato was 0.2 kg. Each plot yield (t ha −1 ) was recorded in each pick.…”

Section: Water Use Efficiency (Wue)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental Impact Assessment (Eia) of Alternative Potato Cropping Systems in Hamadan Province, Iran

Rezaei¹

2018

Appl. Ecol. Env. Res.

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Abstract. Potato is a staple food crop and a most important agricultural commodity in Hamadan Province, Iran. However, the province is facing such problems as water scarcity, nitrate pollution, and plant disease epidemics. This study explored the environmental impact assessment of potato cropping systems in Hamadan Province, Iran. To this purpose, 8 agri-environmental indicators were used for the EIAs of 4 potato cropping systems. These indicators included environmental potential risk indicator for pesticides, water use efficiency, nitrogen leaching, CO 2 emission, energy use, biodiversity, golden potato cyst nematode, and land use. The 4 systems included traditional potato system, quasi-industrial potato system, industrial potato system, and government-promoted potato system and 5 groups of features were used to describe the mentioned systems: (1) irrigation methods; (2) seed placement; (3) machinery use; (4) agrochemical use; and (5) crops rotation. The results revealed that the traditional potato system had the lowest negative impact on the environment. Of the potato production systems studied, the government-promoted potato system, quasi-industrial potato system, and industrial potato system had successively fewer negative effects on the environment. Finally, some strategies are recommended for designing a new benchmark encompassing environmental thresholds using agri-environmental indicator scores and their relationships.

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Section: Water Use Efficiency (Wue)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Environmental Impact Assessment (Eia) of Alternative Potato Cropping Systems in Hamadan Province, Iran

Rezaei¹

2018

Appl. Ecol. Env. Res.

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“…The various recent application areas include agriculture and the food industry-e.g. potato cultivation (Rodriguez et al 2015) as well as food transport ), e-reading vs conventional reading (Jeswani and Azapagic 2015), virtual water trade and WF evaluation in China (Wang et al 2013), water footprinting during wine making (Ene et al 2013), CF of business operations (Chang et al 2015), CF allocation and design of a trigeneration plant (Ubando et al 2013), environmental bill of materials in terms of the footprints' contributions (De Benedetto and Klemeš 2010), sustainability footprint of alternative productions of ceramic tiles (Ibáñez-Forés et al 2013), carbon, water and land footprints of beef cattle production (Ridoutt et al 2014), EF of biodegradable polyester production (Shahzad et al 2013), and many other applications.…”

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confidence: 99%

Significance of environmental footprints for evaluating sustainability and security of development

Čuček

Klemeš

Kravanja

2015

Clean Techn Environ Policy

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This contribution presents the selected categories of environmental footprints related to the planetary boundaries and threats to human security. The analysis covers the footprint family of indicators that usually consists of ecological, carbon or more precisely greenhouse gas and water footprints and also sometimes the energy footprint. The other assessed footprints that are important for ecosystem health in regard to water, health, food, and land and species security are nitrogen, phosphorus, biodiversity and land footprints, which have already transgressed the planetary boundaries and are therefore outside the safe operating space. The importance of the various footprints is discussed and the simultaneous analysis of footprints is emphasised as a major direction of research and practice. The comprehensive set of environmental impacts, e.g. set of presented footprints in this contribution, should be considered and should incorporate the burdening and unburdening concept from the life cycle perspective. Some applications of the presented environmental footprints are offered, and conclusions and remarks provided for future observation.

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“…The analytic method provided by Hoekstra et al (2011) has been widely used by many researchers worldwide. Rodriguez et al (2015) assessed the water footprint for potato production in the Pampean region of Argentina. Ababaei and Etedali (2014) estimated the components of the water footprint for wheat production in Iran.…”

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Reduction of Sugarcane Water Footprint by Controlled Drainage, in Khuzestan, Iran

Jahani

Mohammadi

Nasseri

et al. 2017

Irrigation and Drainage

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The main objective of this study was to estimate the different components of the water footprint for sugarcane production under the conditions of free (FD) and controlled drainage (as an on‐farm strategy for agricultural water management, CD) in an arid and semi‐arid region in the south‐west of Iran (Khuzestan Province). The different components of the water footprint (green, blue and grey) were assessed based on on‐farm measurements. The total amount of water footprint for sugarcane production in the study area stood at 250 m3t−1 in the treatment FD. Of this, 12.2, 71.8 and 16.0% were of the green, blue and grey water footprints, respectively. By using CD this value was reduced to 203 m3t−1 in total, of which, 13.7, 76.8 and 9.5% were of the green, blue and grey water footprints, respectively. This decrease in the amount of water footprint seems to be mainly a result of an increase in crop productivity (due to soil condition improvement), reduction of the in‐ and outflow of the sugarcane farm and also reduction of nitrate losses in the CD treatment. Copyright © 2017 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Analysis of water footprint of potato production in the pampean region of Argentina

Cited by 57 publications

References 34 publications

Environmental Impact Assessment (Eia) of Alternative Potato Cropping Systems in Hamadan Province, Iran

Environmental Impact Assessment (Eia) of Alternative Potato Cropping Systems in Hamadan Province, Iran

Significance of environmental footprints for evaluating sustainability and security of development

Reduction of Sugarcane Water Footprint by Controlled Drainage, in Khuzestan, Iran

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