How can we avoid eating ourselves out of water?

Agriculture is the main contributor to global water scarcity but not all diets contribute equally. Modifying what, and how much, we eat could reduce the impact of our diets on global water resources.

• Publication year

  2021

• Venue

  Nature Food

• Publication date

  2021-04-01

• Fields of study

  Agricultural and Food Sciences, Medicine, Business, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1038/S43016-021-00258-0PMID 37118461
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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