Water stress in Mexico is intimately linked to agriculture, as irrigation claims 75% of national water withdrawals. The Mexican mix of irrigation technologies is dominated by flood techniques, utilized on 93% of irrigated land, while drip and sprinkler systems, both with higher application...

With growing demand for fresh water and uncertain supplies, there is an increasing concern about future water scarcity. Since most freshwater withdrawals are for agriculture, reliance on water embodied in imported food (trade in ‘virtual water’) is a possible strategy to provide food to...

This paper identifies a fundamental challenge in the development of input-output databases of the world economy intended for analysis of alternative scenarios with a model of the world economy. Primary data sources for individual economies generally do not use the same sectoral classification...