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The role of water in transforming food systems

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Title The role of water in transforming food systems
 
Creator Ringler, C.
Agbonlahor, M.
Barron, J.
Baye, K.
Meenakshi, J. V.
Mekonnen, D. K.
Uhlenbrook, Stefan
 
Subject food systems
transformation
water security
water systems
water management
food security
nutrition security
ecosystems
environmental sustainability
climate change
sustainable development goals
goal 2 zero hunger
goal 6 clean water and sanitation
public health
diets
monitoring
data quality
social aspects
 
Description The United Nations Food Systems Summit aimed to chart a path toward transforming food systems toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Despite the essentiality of water for food systems, however, the Summit has not sufficiently considered the role of water for food systems transformation. This focus is even more important due to rapidly worsening climate change and its pervasive impacts on food systems that are mediated through water. To avoid that water “breaks” food systems, key food systems actors should 1) Strengthen efforts to retain water-dependent ecosystems, their functions and services; 2) Improve agricultural water management; 3) Reduce water and food losses beyond the farmgate; 4) Coordinate water with nutrition and health interventions; 5) Increase the environmental sustainability of food systems; 6) Explicitly address social inequities; and 7) Improve data quality and monitoring for water-food system linkages.
 
Date 2022-05-13
2022-05-19T03:46:53Z
2022-05-19T03:46:53Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Ringler, C.; Agbonlahor, M.; Barron, J.; Baye, K.; Meenakshi, J. V.; Mekonnen, D. K.; Uhlenbrook, Stefan. 2022. The role of water in transforming food systems. Global Food Security, 33:100639. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2022.100639]
2211-9124
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/119586
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221191242200030X/pdfft?md5=151b5bf48b6c2e490067906dbdac04ee&pid=1-s2.0-S221191242200030X-main.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2022.100639
H051147
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format 33:100639.
 
Source Global Food Security