Abstract

Society’s greatest use of water is in food production; a fact that puts farmers centre stage in global environmental management. Current management of food value chains, however, is not well set up to enable farmers to undertake their dual role of feeding a growing population and stewarding natural resources. The book considers the interconnected issues of real water in the environment and “virtual water” in food value chains and investigates how society influences both fields. This perspective draws out considerable challenges for food security and for environmental stewardship in the context of ongoing global change. The book discusses these issues by region and with global overviews of selected commodities. Innovation relevant to the kind of change needed for the current food system to meet future challenges is reviewed in light of the findings of the regional and thematic analysis.

Contents

This handbook is currently still in development, however individual articles have been published online in advance of print publication.

• Food, Water and Society: An Analytical Framework
  Brendan Bromwich, Tony Allan, Tony Colman, and Martin Keulertz
• Natural Capital Accounting for Water Resources
  Matthew Agarwala and Michael Brock
• Will Irrigation Technology, Pricing, or Quotas Ensure Sustainable Water Use?
  Chris Perry
• Green Water Used By Plants And Managed By Farmers: Measurement, Accounting, Policy
  David Dent
• Green Water and Food Security
  Garrison Sposito
• Global food Trade and Local Water Resources: Can We Bridge the Regulatory Gap?
  Arjen Y. Hoekstra
• Water Service Requirements for Agriculture: Nature, Nurture, and Negotiation
  Carl Hausmann
• Dietary Patterns that Value People and the Planet
  Joanne Delaney Burke
• Incentive Programs to Address the Challenges of Hunger, Undernutrition, and Obesity in the United States
  August Schumacher and Emily Nink
• Valuing Water in Food Systems and Beyond
  Morgan, A.J., Orr, S., and Matthews, N.
• Valuing Water in Supply Chains
  Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Christian A. Vousvouras, and Samuel Vionnet
• Subsidies and the Environment: Impacts of WTO Agricultural Support Disciplines
  Ulla Kask
• The Potential Impact of Improved Water Management to Alleviate Water Scarcity and Hunger: A Global Perspective
  Dieter Gerten and Jonas Jägermeyr
• Water and Food in the American West: Lessons from Recent Droughts in California
  Josué Medellín-Azuara, Jay R. Lund, and Daniel A. Sumner
• Food and Water Security in North America’s Transboundary Sonoran Desert: A Water-Exporting Dryland
  America N. Lutz-Ley, Christopher A. Scott, Ryan H. Lee, and Yulia A. Peralta-Lugo
• Water Issues and the Brazilian Agricultural Agenda
  Vanessa Lucena Empinotti
• Water in Australian Agriculture
  James Horne
• Food and Water Management in Northwest Africa
  Mustapha Besbes, Jamel Chahed, and Abdelkader Hamdane
• Food and Water Security in the Mediterranean Basin
  Michel Petit and Philippe Le Grusse
• Food and Water Management in Southern Africa
  Johnston, PA and Chapman, RA
• Food and Water Security in West Asia
  Eckart Woertz
• Global Wheat Value Chains
  Duke University Center on Global Value Chains Ghada A. Ahmed
• Water & Coffee
  John Schluter
• The Future of Rice
  Phil Riddell and Biksham Gujja
• Oil Palm Value Chain Management
  Denis J Murphy
• A Farmer’s Perspective on Sustainable Agriculture, Soil, and Water Health
  A. J. (Tony) Reynolds
• Farmer-led Water User Associations in Agricultural Water Management
  Azza Dirar and Rami Zurayk
• The Variable Rate Irrigation Management Challenge
  J. Lowenberg-DeBoer
• The Role of New and Green Water Resources in Localizing Water and Food Security Under Arid and Semiarid Conditions
  Rabi H. Mohtar and Amjad T. Assi
• The Water Infrastructure Crisis
  Phil Riddell
• Understanding Pesticides in England and Wales: Pathways, Policies, and Pollution Prevention
  Frances Elwell Dr, Nicola Nineham, and Nikolaus Clemenz
• Modelling Agricultural Controls for Flooding and Soil Erosion
  Roger Moussa and Bruno Cheviron
• Societal Drivers of Food and Water Systems 1: The Approach by Way of Material Flows, Household Consumption Styles, and Contending Schools of Engineering Thought
  Michael Thompson, M. Bruce Beck, and Dipak Gyawali
• Societal Drivers of Food and Water Systems 2: Applying Plural Rationality to Some Wicked Problems
  M. Bruce Beck, Dipak Gyawali, and Michael Thompson
• Disruptive Food Supply Chains: Bringing it all Back Home
  Tony Beck
• The Global Uptake of Conservation Agriculture and the Impact on Water-Related Ecosystem Services
  Amir Kassam and David Coates
• Water Management by Farmers
  Laurence E. D. Smith
• Gender, Poverty and Politics Along the Real-Virtual Water Spectrum
  Floriane Clement, International Water Management Institute (IWMI) and DYNAFOR, Université de Toulouse, INPT, INRA, Toulouse, France (INRA) and Alan Nicol, and IWMI

Link

Oxford Handbooks online website

Published

Mai 2018

Published by

Oxford University Press