This poster, prepared for the ILRI@40 series of events, explains a study that is developing a new approach to livestock water use that determines the environmental impact associated with resource out-take, while accounting for the competition for freshwater use between production of food and feed crops. Continue reading
Tag Archives: Water
Animal Feeding / ILRI / SLS
Thirsty food story: grasping the invisible ingredient
Every food item we eat needs water for its production, but different foods require different amount of water. What do you think consumes more water: a steak, a glass of milk, a piece of bread or a cucumber? The short answer to this question is that the steak is the biggest water consumer. However, this … Continue reading
Agriculture / Article / CGIAR / Farming Systems / Humid Tropics / HUMIDTROPICS / ILRI / Report / SLS
New article recommends enhanced indicator to measure productivity of water
A newly published journal article recommends an alternative indicator that addresses some limitations of the WP approach and enhances productivity estimates for water in integrated systems. The ‘aqueous productivity’ (AP) uses a systems approach to integrate consumptive and non-consumptive water uses, hence providing an authentic productivity estimation of water Continue reading
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