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Water for Food Security, Nutrition and Social Justice

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This book is the first comprehensive effort to bring together Water, Food Security and Nutrition (FSN) in a way that goes beyond the traditional focus on irrigated agriculture. Apart from looking at the role of water and sanitation for human well-being, it proposes alternative and more locally appropriate ways to address complex water management and governance challenges from the local to global levels against a backdrop of growing uncertainties. The authors challenge mainstream supply-oriented and neo-Malthusian visions that argue for the need to increase the land area under irrigation in order to feed the world’s growing population. Instead, they argue for a reframing of the debate concerning production processes, waste, food consumption and dietary patterns whilst proposing alternative strategies to improve water and land productivity, putting the interests of marginalized and disenfranchized groups upfront. The book highlights how accessing water for FSN can be challenging for small-holders, vulnerable and marginalized women and men, and how water allocation systems and reform processes can negatively affect local people’s informal rights. The book argues for the need to improve policy coherence across water, land and food and is original in making a case for strengthening the relationship between the human rights to water and food, especially for marginalized women and men. It will be of great interest to practitioners, students and researchers working on water and food issues.

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ISBN: 9781138729162
Publication date: 8th October 2019
Author: Lyla Mehta, Theib Oweis, Claudia International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC, USA Ringler, Barbara Schreiner
Publisher: Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 214 pages
Series: Pathways to Sustainability
Genres: Agribusiness and primary industries
Agricultural science
Alternative and renewable energy sources and technology
Climate change
Development studies
Development economics and emerging economies
Environmental economics
Environmental science, engineering and technology
Civil engineering, surveying and building
Hydrology and the hydrosphere