Digital soil mapping is critical when quantifying the relationship between soil types and their associated bio-physical environments. Digital mapping of regional soils affected by salt is essential when monitoring the dynamics of soil salts and planning land development and reclamatation...

Identifying and quantifying the links between water resources and food production is crucial in addressing the intensified conflicts between water scarcity and food security. We proposed an integrated framework for quantifying relationships between food and water based on the concept of green...

We assessed the basin-scale crop water productivity (CWP) on staple grain crops, i.e. rice, wheat, maize, soybean, at major breadbasket basins of China over time periods of 1997-2004. The multiple-year average CWP was 1.06kgm-3 for the selected basins (equivalents of 946m3 water consumption in...