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Water and Nutrition: Harmonizing actions for the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition and the United Nations Water Action Decade

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Title Water and Nutrition: Harmonizing actions for the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition and the United Nations Water Action Decade
 
Creator United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition
 
Subject wash
agriculture
food systems
ecosystems
nutrition
 
Description Progress for both SDG 2 and SDG 6 has been unsatisfactory, with several indicators worsening over time,
including an increase in the number of undernourished, overweight and obese people, as well as rapid increases
in the number of people at risk of severe water shortages. This lack of progress is exacerbated by climate
change and growing regional and global inequities in food and water security, including access to good quality
diets, leading to increased violation of the human rights to water and food.
Reversing these trends will require a much greater effort on the part of water, food security, and nutrition
communities, including stronger performances by the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition and the
United Nations International Decade for Action on Water for Sustainable Development. To date, increased
collaboration by these two landmark initiatives is lacking, as neither work program has systematically
explored linkages or possibilities for joint interventions.
Collaboration is especially imperative given the fundamental challenges that characterize the promotion of
one priority over another. Without coordination across the water, food security, and nutrition communities,
actions toward achieving SDG2 on zero hunger may contribute to further degradation of the world’s water
resources and as such, further derail achievement of the UN Decade of Action on Water and SDG 6 on water
and sanitation. Conversely, actions to enhance SDG 6 may well reduce progress on the UN Decade of Action
on Nutrition and SDG 2.
This paper reviews these challenges as part of a broader analysis of the complex web of pathways that link
water, food security and nutrition outcomes. Climate change and the growing demand for water resources are
also considered, given their central role in shaping future water and nutrition security. The main conclusions
are presented as three recommendations focused on potential avenues to deal with the complexity of the
water-nutrition nexus, and to optimize outcomes.
 
Date 2020-02-01
2020-02-25T12:18:38Z
2020-02-25T12:18:38Z
 
Type Other
 
Identifier United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition. 2020. Water and Nutrition: Harmonizing actions for the United Nations decade of action on nutrition and the United Nations water action decad. United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition. 53p.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/107267
https://www.unscn.org/uploads/web/news/document/Water-Paper-EN-WEB-12feb.pdf
Variability, Risks and Competing Uses
 
Language en
 
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Open Access
 
Format 53p.
application/pdf
 
Publisher United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition