Embracing complexities in agricultural water management through nexus planning
A major challenge for agricultural water management (AWM) in the 21st century is to feed a growing population in the face of increasing intersectoral resource competition, evolving diets, degradation, pandemics, geopolitical conflicts and climate change. This has to be achieved within the planetary...
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| author | Smith, Mark Sikka, Alok Taguta, C. Dirwai, Tinashe Lindel Mabhaudhi, T. |
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| description | A major challenge for agricultural water management (AWM) in the 21st century is to feed a growing population in the face of increasing intersectoral resource competition, evolving diets, degradation, pandemics, geopolitical conflicts and climate change. This has to be achieved within the planetary boundaries and without compromising the livelihood and environmental (ecosystem) objectives linked to water, including provisioning, supporting and regulating services. This paper uses a systems and nexus lens to unravel the centrality and complexities in AWM, with particular emphasis on the interconnected dimensions and objectives of AWM, as well as its practices and technologies. AWM exists beyond water and food with linkages to human and environmental well-being. AWM needs to catalyse transformation and integrate approaches across systems, users and scales to meet its objectives in a changing climate. It must provide perspectives beyond productivity, managing water risks and safeguarding food security – as important as these are – and integrate our understanding of the interconnected climate, land, water, food and ecosystems to address planetary health outcomes. By doing so, AWM could catalyse contextualised, equitable, innovative solutions that acknowledge local socio-economic and institutional structures and limitations while catalysing sustainable development and climate resilience. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1551732025-10-26T12:57:04Z Embracing complexities in agricultural water management through nexus planning Smith, Mark Sikka, Alok Taguta, C. Dirwai, Tinashe Lindel Mabhaudhi, T. agricultural water management energy security food security nexus approaches planning water security equity livelihoods policies resilience sustainable development goals nutrition human health ecosystems biodiversity climate change integration cooperation governance institutions A major challenge for agricultural water management (AWM) in the 21st century is to feed a growing population in the face of increasing intersectoral resource competition, evolving diets, degradation, pandemics, geopolitical conflicts and climate change. This has to be achieved within the planetary boundaries and without compromising the livelihood and environmental (ecosystem) objectives linked to water, including provisioning, supporting and regulating services. This paper uses a systems and nexus lens to unravel the centrality and complexities in AWM, with particular emphasis on the interconnected dimensions and objectives of AWM, as well as its practices and technologies. AWM exists beyond water and food with linkages to human and environmental well-being. AWM needs to catalyse transformation and integrate approaches across systems, users and scales to meet its objectives in a changing climate. It must provide perspectives beyond productivity, managing water risks and safeguarding food security – as important as these are – and integrate our understanding of the interconnected climate, land, water, food and ecosystems to address planetary health outcomes. By doing so, AWM could catalyse contextualised, equitable, innovative solutions that acknowledge local socio-economic and institutional structures and limitations while catalysing sustainable development and climate resilience. 2024-11 2024-10-04T06:29:06Z 2024-10-04T06:29:06Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155173 en Open Access Wiley Smith, Mark D.; Sikka, Alok; Taguta, C.; Dirwai, Tinashe L.; Mabhaudhi, T. 2024. Embracing complexities in agricultural water management through nexus planning. Irrigation and Drainage, 73(5):1695-1716. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/ird.3041] |
| spellingShingle | agricultural water management energy security food security nexus approaches planning water security equity livelihoods policies resilience sustainable development goals nutrition human health ecosystems biodiversity climate change integration cooperation governance institutions Smith, Mark Sikka, Alok Taguta, C. Dirwai, Tinashe Lindel Mabhaudhi, T. Embracing complexities in agricultural water management through nexus planning |
| title | Embracing complexities in agricultural water management through nexus planning |
| title_full | Embracing complexities in agricultural water management through nexus planning |
| title_fullStr | Embracing complexities in agricultural water management through nexus planning |
| title_full_unstemmed | Embracing complexities in agricultural water management through nexus planning |
| title_short | Embracing complexities in agricultural water management through nexus planning |
| title_sort | embracing complexities in agricultural water management through nexus planning |
| topic | agricultural water management energy security food security nexus approaches planning water security equity livelihoods policies resilience sustainable development goals nutrition human health ecosystems biodiversity climate change integration cooperation governance institutions |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/155173 |
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