A new dataset of global irrigation areas from 2001 to 2015

Warming of hot extremes alleviated by expanding irrigation

(2020) Wim Thiery et al.   Nature Communications

Divergent regional climate consequences of maintaining current irrigation rates in the 21st century

(2020) Benjamin I. Cook et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES

Global agricultural economic water scarcity

(2020) Lorenzo Rosa et al.   Science Advances

The Global Food-Energy-Water Nexus

(2018) Paolo D'Odorico et al.   REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS

TerraClimate, a high-resolution global dataset of monthly climate and climatic water balance from 1958–2015

(2018) John T. Abatzoglou et al.   Scientific Data

Options for keeping the food system within environmental limits

(2018) Marco Springmann et al.   NATURE

Resilience in the global food system

(2017) David Seekell et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Global Relationships between Cropland Intensification and Summer Temperature Extremes over the Last 50 Years

(2017) Nathaniel D. Mueller et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

Increased food production and reduced water use through optimized crop distribution

(2017) Kyle Frankel Davis et al.   Nature Geoscience

Global rain-fed, irrigated, and paddy croplands: A new high resolution map derived from remote sensing, crop inventories and climate data

(2015) J.Meghan Salmon et al.   International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Cooling of US Midwest summer temperature extremes from cropland intensification

(2015) Nathaniel D. Mueller et al.   Nature Climate Change

Moderating diets to feed the future

(2014) Kyle F. Davis et al.   Earths Future

Redefining agricultural yields: from tonnes to people nourished per hectare

(2013) Emily S Cassidy et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Where Does the Irrigation Water Go? An Estimate of the Contribution of Irrigation to Precipitation Using MERRA

(2012) Jiangfeng Wei et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY

Closing yield gaps through nutrient and water management

(2012) Nathaniel D. Mueller et al.   NATURE

Evapotranspiration: A process driving mass transport and energy exchange in the soil-plant-atmosphere-climate system

(2012) Gabriel G. Katul et al.   REVIEWS OF GEOPHYSICS

Lost food, wasted resources: Global food supply chain losses and their impacts on freshwater, cropland, and fertiliser use

(2012) M. Kummu et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Solutions for a cultivated planet

(2011) Jonathan A. Foley et al.   NATURE

MIRCA2000-Global monthly irrigated and rainfed crop areas around the year 2000: A new high-resolution data set for agricultural and hydrological modeling

(2010) Felix T. Portmann et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Effects of irrigation on global climate during the 20th century

(2010) M. J. Puma et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Food Security: The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion People

(2010) H. C. J. Godfray et al.   SCIENCE

Improving agricultural water productivity: Between optimism and caution

(2009) David Molden et al.   AGRICULTURAL WATER MANAGEMENT

Global irrigated area map (GIAM), derived from remote sensing, for the end of the last millennium

(2009) Prasad S. Thenkabail et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REMOTE SENSING

A safe operating space for humanity

(2009) Johan Rockström et al.   NATURE

Farming the planet: 1. Geographic distribution of global agricultural lands in the year 2000

(2008) Navin Ramankutty et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Regional Differences in the Influence of Irrigation on Climate

(2008) David Lobell et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

How a century of ammonia synthesis changed the world

(2008) Jan Willem Erisman et al.   Nature Geoscience