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urn:nbn:nl:ui:32-422788 2026-03-31 urn:nbn:nl:ui:32-422788/mods Virtual water hegemony: the role of agribusiness in global water governance Sojamo S. aut Keulertz M. aut Warner J.F. 109311094 0000-0003-2847-8770 0000000109770560 aut Allan J.A. aut text info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2012 10.1080/02508060.2012.662734 2-s2.0-84859200604 000305255400008 en The recent global food crises have highlighted how the agro-food system tends to be subject to powerful agribusiness players, with thus far unidentified consequences for global water security. By connecting hydro-hegemony and virtual water concepts, this study illustrates the Western dominance over the virtual water embedded in international agro-food commodity trade flows. Accordingly, foreign direct investment in land by emerging Asian and Arab economies and their increased competition over the sources of global food supply chains appear as strategies to challenge the Western agribusiness “virtual water hegemony”. WASS Chair Disaster Studies food regime trade WASS Leerstoel Rampenstudies Water International 37 2 169 182 02508060 urn:nbn:nl:ui:32-422788/obj 2026-03-31 http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/RestrictedAccess