Using the data of 30 provinces from 1998 to 2016 in China, this paper estimates the water rebound effect in agricultural crop farming by combining the SBM-based Malmquist Index and Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index (LMDI) method. We find that the average water rebound effect is 70.3%, implying that...

Agricultural food production in China is deeply vulnerable to extreme droughts. Although there are many studies to evaluate this issue from different aspects, comprehensive assessments with full consideration of climate change, crop rotations, irrigation effects, and socioeconomic factors in...

The water-energy-food nexus in the agricultural management of the Tarim River Basin (TRB) is an important index that reflects agricultural input productivity. This study uses the crop water requirement, energy equivalent, and agricultural water-energy-food nexus index model to comprehensive...