Water productivity assessment for China's Yellow river basin

abstract

• The second longest river in China after the Yangtze, the Yellow River and its basin (YRB) is the breadbasket of China and the cradle of Chinese civilization. With only 2 percent of national water resources, the basin generated 14 percent of Chinese grain production and 14 percent of the country's GDP in 2000

authors

• Cai, X.
• Yang, Yi-Chen
• Ringler, Claudia
• You, Liangzhi

publication date

• 2010

has subject area

• clarisaCountry-156
• China
• assessment
• productivity
• water
• water productivity

geographic focus

• China