Water for life and food: Synergies between SDGs 2 and 6 and human rights

This chapter focuses on the multiple facets and meanings of water and how it is a contested resource. It also explores linkages between SDG 6 (Clean water and sanitation) and SDG 2 (Zero hunger). Water is essential for all life and integral to the functioning of food systems; similarly, changes in o...

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Autores principales: Mehta, Lyla, Ringler, Claudia, Varghese, Shiney
Formato: Capítulo de libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol University Press 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/134779
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description This chapter focuses on the multiple facets and meanings of water and how it is a contested resource. It also explores linkages between SDG 6 (Clean water and sanitation) and SDG 2 (Zero hunger). Water is essential for all life and integral to the functioning of food systems; similarly, changes in our food systems are essential to achieve SDG 6. And improvements in both are needed to reduce inequities in resources and achievements. As an example, land, food and water rights often go hand in hand, and are marked by gender, caste, racial and other exclusions. The chapter highlights how accessing water for food security can be challenging for smallholders and for vulnerable and marginalized women and men, and how water allocation systems, privatization and reform processes can affect local people’s rights to water, land and food. It argues for the need to improve policy coherence across water, land and food, and concludes by making a case for strengthening the relationship between the human right to water and food, especially for marginalized women and men.
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spelling CGSpace1347792024-10-25T07:55:31Z Water for life and food: Synergies between SDGs 2 and 6 and human rights Mehta, Lyla Ringler, Claudia Varghese, Shiney food security hunger hygiene land access men sustainable development goals water water allocation women This chapter focuses on the multiple facets and meanings of water and how it is a contested resource. It also explores linkages between SDG 6 (Clean water and sanitation) and SDG 2 (Zero hunger). Water is essential for all life and integral to the functioning of food systems; similarly, changes in our food systems are essential to achieve SDG 6. And improvements in both are needed to reduce inequities in resources and achievements. As an example, land, food and water rights often go hand in hand, and are marked by gender, caste, racial and other exclusions. The chapter highlights how accessing water for food security can be challenging for smallholders and for vulnerable and marginalized women and men, and how water allocation systems, privatization and reform processes can affect local people’s rights to water, land and food. It argues for the need to improve policy coherence across water, land and food, and concludes by making a case for strengthening the relationship between the human right to water and food, especially for marginalized women and men. 2023 2023-11-28T20:58:34Z 2023-11-28T20:58:34Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/134779 en https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351747622 Open Access Bristol University Press Mehta, Lyla; Ringler, Claudia; and Varghese, Shiney. 2023. Water for life and food: Synergies between SDGs 2 and 6 and human rights. In The Environment in Global Sustainability Governance Perceptions, Actors, Innovations, ed. Lena Partzsch. Chapter 6, Pp. 127-148. https://doi.org/10.51952/9781529228021.ch010
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Water for life and food: Synergies between SDGs 2 and 6 and human rights
title Water for life and food: Synergies between SDGs 2 and 6 and human rights
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hunger
hygiene
land access
men
sustainable development goals
water
water allocation
women
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