Local/Global Encounters
Development (2008) 51, 135–138. doi:10.1057/palgrave.development.1100449
Water Scarcity Management in the MENA Region from a Globalization Perspective
Mounir Belloumi and Mohamed Salah Matoussi
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Abstract
In the perspective of globalization, the Middle East and North Africa countries must revise soundly their irrigation strategies, pay more attention to virtual water trade and resolve problems of transboundary water resource management, if they want to maintain an irrigation sector able to secure a minimum food security.
Keywords:
MENA region, irrigation, virtual water trade, transboundary water
