Optimising the water we eat—rethinking policy to enhance productive and sustainable use of water in agri-food systems across scales
Sustainable and resilient food systems depend on sustainable and resilient water management. Resilience is characterised by overlapping decision spaces and scales and interdependencies among water users and competing sectors. Increasing water scarcity, due to climate change and other environmental a...
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2022
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| author | Uhlenbrook, Stefan Yu, W. Schmitter, Petra S. Smith, Mark |
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| description | Sustainable and resilient food systems depend on sustainable and resilient water management. Resilience is characterised by overlapping decision spaces and scales and interdependencies among water users and competing sectors. Increasing water scarcity, due to climate change and other environmental and societal changes, makes putting caps on the consumption of water resources indispensable. Implementation requires an understanding of different domains, actors, and their objectives, and drivers and barriers to transformational change. We suggest a scale-specific approach, in which agricultural water use is embedded in a larger systems approach (including natural and human systems). This approach is the basis for policy coherence and the design of effective incentive schemes to change agricultural water use behaviour and, therefore, optimise the water we eat. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1173732025-12-02T10:59:51Z Optimising the water we eat—rethinking policy to enhance productive and sustainable use of water in agri-food systems across scales Uhlenbrook, Stefan Yu, W. Schmitter, Petra S. Smith, Mark agricultural water use sustainable use water use efficiency agrifood systems policies agricultural production food production food security water resources water scarcity water productivity water management groundwater water users climate change resilience sustainable development goals Sustainable and resilient food systems depend on sustainable and resilient water management. Resilience is characterised by overlapping decision spaces and scales and interdependencies among water users and competing sectors. Increasing water scarcity, due to climate change and other environmental and societal changes, makes putting caps on the consumption of water resources indispensable. Implementation requires an understanding of different domains, actors, and their objectives, and drivers and barriers to transformational change. We suggest a scale-specific approach, in which agricultural water use is embedded in a larger systems approach (including natural and human systems). This approach is the basis for policy coherence and the design of effective incentive schemes to change agricultural water use behaviour and, therefore, optimise the water we eat. 2022-01 2022-01-07T10:05:06Z 2022-01-07T10:05:06Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/117373 en Open Access Elsevier Uhlenbrook, Stefan; Yu, W.; Schmitter, Petra; Smith, Douglas Mark. 2022. Optimising the water we eat—rethinking policy to enhance productive and sustainable use of water in agri-food systems across scales. Lancet Planetary Health, 6(1):E59-E65. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00264-3] |
| spellingShingle | agricultural water use sustainable use water use efficiency agrifood systems policies agricultural production food production food security water resources water scarcity water productivity water management groundwater water users climate change resilience sustainable development goals Uhlenbrook, Stefan Yu, W. Schmitter, Petra S. Smith, Mark Optimising the water we eat—rethinking policy to enhance productive and sustainable use of water in agri-food systems across scales |
| title | Optimising the water we eat—rethinking policy to enhance productive and sustainable use of water in agri-food systems across scales |
| title_full | Optimising the water we eat—rethinking policy to enhance productive and sustainable use of water in agri-food systems across scales |
| title_fullStr | Optimising the water we eat—rethinking policy to enhance productive and sustainable use of water in agri-food systems across scales |
| title_full_unstemmed | Optimising the water we eat—rethinking policy to enhance productive and sustainable use of water in agri-food systems across scales |
| title_short | Optimising the water we eat—rethinking policy to enhance productive and sustainable use of water in agri-food systems across scales |
| title_sort | optimising the water we eat rethinking policy to enhance productive and sustainable use of water in agri food systems across scales |
| topic | agricultural water use sustainable use water use efficiency agrifood systems policies agricultural production food production food security water resources water scarcity water productivity water management groundwater water users climate change resilience sustainable development goals |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/117373 |
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