event 06 sept. 2018

Resource Management for Food Security // What Is Food-water and Why Do We not Account for It?

By Martin Keulertz and Tony Allan. With 92 percent of the water used by society for food-water, the behavior of consumers determines the demand for food and water. This chapter examines the extent to which global society can manage sustainably the water resources on which its food security depends.

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Many market players ensure the demand for food is met in supply chains that are embedded in the global food system, linking farmers, agri-industries that supply inputs, food traders, food manufacturers, and food retailers. Food-water risk highlights the importance of the food choices of consumers, as their wasteful practices squander volumes of water and energy along the food supply chains. It is important to recognize that food supply chains are often blind to the costs of blue and green water as an input and to the impacts of misallocating and mismanaging water. This chapter thus discusses the politics of food and the need to account for water.

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Oxford Handbooks website

Published

March 2017

In

The Oxford Handbook of Water Politics and Policy
Edited by Ken Conca and Erika Weinthal

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