Gross Domestic Product and water footprint of agribusiness

Comparative Between Countries

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4010797
AutoresUmberto Antonio Sesso Filho (0000-0003-4691-7343, Universidade Estadual de Londrina), Ricardo Luis Lopes (0000-0002-2089-772X, Universidade Estadual de Maringá), Carlos Alberto Gonçalves Junior (0000-0002-6787-6117, Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná), Emerson Guzzi Zuan Esteves (0000-0003-0194-8998, Universidade Estadual de Londrina), Patrícia Pompermayer Sesso (0000-0001-5451-5470, Instituto de Desenvolvimento Rural do Paraná, Brasil, autor de correspondencia)
Año2024
Volumen62
Número4
Fecha de publicación2024-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaRevista de Economia e Sociologia Rural (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0103-2003 • E-ISSN: 1806-9479
EditorialFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/1806-9479.2023.274229en
OpenAlexW4397025963
SCIELO_PIDS0103-20032024000400214
IdiomaEN
Referencias citadas25

The objective of this study is to measure the countries' agribusiness in terms of income (Gross Domestic Product - GDP) and water (water footprint), in addition to estimating a sustainability indicator (water per unit of income). The methodology is based on the input-output matrix and was applied to 189 countries with a focus on the twenty largest economies (GDP) in 2015. The GDP of world agribusiness was US$12.3 trillion and the water footprint of 151 trillion cubic meters, the values represented respectively 18% and 97.5% of the total production system. The share of agribusiness income in the total productive system of the countries ranged from 4% to 61%. The highest agribusiness GDP figures were obtained for China (US$ 2.5 trillion), the United States (US$ 1.4 trillion), India (US$ 0.67 trillion), Japan (US$ 0.5 trillion) and Brazil (US$ 0.43 trillion). The environmental cost of agribusiness measured in cubic meters of water per thousand dollars of income generation (m3/US$) ranged from less than one hundred cubic meters for every thousand dollars of income generated to more than 200 thousand, which indicates that there is the possibility of increasing the efficiency of water use and sustainability through the development of new technologies

Agribusiness · Agricultural economics · Agricultural science · Agriculture · Business · Economic growth · Economics · Footprint · Geography · Gross domestic product · Product (mathematics) · Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact · Environmental Impact and Sustainability · Environmental Science · Mathematics · Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies