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Review of global agricultural water use per country

References

FAO (1995a), Irrigation in Africa in figures, FAO Water Report 7, Rome, Italy

FAO (1995b), The Digitized Soil Map of the World Including Derived Soil Properties. (version 3.5), FAO Land and Water Digital Media Series 1, Rome, Italy

FAO (1997a), Irrigation in the Near East in figures, FAO Water Report 9, Rome, Italy

FAO (1997b), Irrigation in the Countries of the Former Soviet Union in figures, FAO Water Report 15, Rome, Italy

FAO (1998), Crop evapotranspiration - Guidelines for computing crop water requirements, Allen, R.G., L.S. Pereira, D. Raes and M. Smith, FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper 56, Rome, Italy.

FAO (1999), Irrigation in Asia in figures, FAO Water Report 18, Rome, Italy

FAO (2000a), Irrigation in Latin America and the Caribbean in figures, FAO Water Report 20, Rome, Italy

Perry, C.J. and G. Kite, (2003) Water accounting at Basin Scale: A Critique of the AQUASTAT Approach. Unpublished Report

Leemans, R. and W. Cramer, (1991) The IIASA database for mean monthly values of temperature, precipitation and cloudiness on a global terrestrial grid. Research Report RR-91-18, International Institute of Applied Systems Analyses, Laxenburg, Austria

New, M., M. Hulme, P. Jones (1999), Representing Twentieth-Century Space-Time Cimate Variability. Part I: Development of a 1961-90 Mean Monthly Terrestrial Climatology in "Journal of Climate" Volume 12, March 1999.

Stefan Siebert, Petra Döll and Jippe Hoogeveen (2002), Global map of irrigated areas version 2.1, Center for Environmental Systems Research, University of Kassel, Germany / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy.


     
   
   
       
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