The Oxford Handbook of Food, Water and Society
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-066979-9 (ISBN)
Our food supply chains are at risk. Water resources--sometimes scarce, often damaged, and always under-valued--are among the major reasons why food and water security rank high every year in the World Economic Forum's major global risk analysis. A stable and sustainable food system is critical to society's survival. This Handbook shows that keeping the food system stable comes at the expense of the environment, especially of water resources and those who consume and manage them.
The way the food system operates reflects hard political realities. Rather than pay for the environmental costs of sustainable production, society expects food at ever lower prices. Governments reflect their electorates in this regard. Given that farm production may account for as little as 10% of the food value chain in wealthy economies, it is striking that governments have been unwilling (or unable) to put in place the essential laws and accountability that would enable famers to ensure both production and stewardship. Corporate food traders, food manufacturers, and retailers on the other hand operate in markets that make profits and pay taxes. But these corporations are not contractually bound to utilize highly nutritious, sustainably produced food commodities.
The articles in this Oxford Handbook have been written by water and food system scientists and professionals, including farmers, rarely heard voices who understand the problems of food producers, food manufacturers, and regulating markets and public policy. The articles address the blind spots of society and its public policymakers, demonstrating the importance of informing society about the consequences of its food preferences and the heroic challenges it is beginning to face. The damage we are doing to our water and soil ecosystems is as important as the damage we do to the atmosphere. Impressed by the technical and organizational advances of the past two centuries, the contributors featured in this book also take note of where economic inefficiencies and cultural deadlock in a 4,000 year old system are putting our critical food supply chains at risk.
Tony Allan, PhD is based at King's College London and SOAS London. He specializes in the analysis of water resources in semi-arid regions and on the role of global systems in ameliorating local and regional water deficits. He pointed out that water short economies achieve water and food security not on the basis of their own water endowments but by importing water intensive food commodities - a concept which he found he had to call "virtual water." For the past decade he has analyzed our very politicized food system, highlighting that how the "broken" food system operates determines how water is managed and mismanaged by farmers. Brendan Bromwich is an environmental engineer with experience of water problems in complex social and political contexts. He has worked in the private sector, NGOs and the UN in Europe, Asia, and Africa with a focus on water infrastructure and on institutional change. His PhD thesis examines institutional change and conflict over natural resources and is based on his experience coordinating UN Environment's work in Sudan. He holds degrees in Environmental Engineering from Imperial College and in Geography from King's College London. Martin Keulertz, PhD works as Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences at the American University of Beirut, where he chairs AUB's Food Security Program. He previously worked as a post-doctoral research fellow at Purdue University (USA) and Humboldt University Berlin (Germany). He obtained his PhD at King's College London (UK) in 2013, his MSc in Middle East Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London) and a BA in Political and Social Sciences at the University of Wales, Bangor in 2007. Martin's research interests center around the water-food-energy nexus with a particular focus on the Arab world, North America, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Moreover, he has published on the global political economy of water and food. Anthony Colman, PhD is Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Cape Town, University of East Anglia and the Columbia Water Center. His current work is on the UNFCCC Koronivia agenda to reduce GHG emissions and ensure the adaptation of agriculture. He is completing a trilogy study of Cape Town, New York City, and London's planning for drinking water. He was the UK MP for Putney from 1997 to 2005. He is a member of the World Future Council. His work brings together the disciplines of academia, political realism, and the private sector.
Contents
List of Contributors
Introduction
1. Food, Water and Society: An Analytical Framework
Brendan Bromwich, Tony Allan, Anthony Colman, Martin Keulertz
Part I: Key Concepts
2. Green Water Used By Plants And Managed By Farmers: Measurement, Accounting, Policy
David Leslie Dent
3. Green Water and Food Security
Garrison Sposito
4. Natural Capital Accounting for Water Resources
Matthew Agarwala, Michael Brock
5. Will Irrigation Technology, Pricing, or Quotas Ensure Sustainable Water Use?
Chris Perry
6. Global food Trade and Local Water Resources: Can We Bridge the Regulatory Gap?
Arjen Hoekstra
7. Water Service Requirements for Agriculture: Nature, Nurture and Negotiation
Carl Hausmann
8. Valuing Water in Supply Chains
Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Christian A. Vousvouras, Samuel Vionnet
9. Valuing Water in Food Systems and Beyond
Alexis J. Morgan, Stuart Orr, Nathanial Matthews
10. Subsidies and the Environment: Impacts of WTO Agricultural Support Disciplines
Ulla Kask
11. Dietary Patterns that Value People and the Planet
Joanne Burke
12. Incentive Programs to Address the Challenges of Hunger, Undernutrition, and Obesity in the United States
Gus Schumacher, Emily Nink
13. Farmer-led Water User Associations in Agricultural Water Management
Rami Zurayk, Azza Dirar
14. Gender, Poverty and Politics Along the Real-virtual Water Spectrum
Floriane Clement, Alan Nicol
15. The Feminization of Agriculture: Evidence and Implications for Food and Water Security
Vanya Slavchevska, Susan Kaaria, Sanna Liisa Taivalmaa
16. Societal Drivers of Food and Water Systems 1: Material Flows, Household Consumption Styles, and Contending Schools of Engineering Thought
Michael Thompson, M. Bruce Beck, Dipak Gyawali
17. Societal Drivers of Food and Water Systems 2: Applying Plural Rationality to some Wicked Problems
M. Bruce Beck, Dipak Gyawali, Michael Thompson
Part II: Global Problemsheds
18. Water and Food in the American West: Lessons from Recent Droughts in California
Josué Medellín-Azuara, Jay Lund, Daniel A. Sumner
19. Food and Water Security in North America's Transboundary Sonoran Desert: a Water Exporting Dryland
America Lutz Ley, Ryan Lee, Yulia Peralta, Christopher Scott
20. Water Issues and the Brazilian Agricultural Agenda
Vanessa Lucena Empinotti
21. Water in Australian Agriculture
James Horne
22. Circumventing Water Scarcity in the Jordan Basin: Decoupling Trends in Israel and Jordan
Michael Gilmont, Lara Nassar, Erica Harper, Nadav Tal, Steve Rayner
23. Food and Water Management in Northwest Africa
Mustapha Besbes, Jamel Chahed, Abdelkader Hamdane
24. Food and Water Management in the Mediterranean Basin
Michel Petit, Phillipe Le Grusse
25. Food and Water Security in West Africa
Tim Williams
26. Food and Water Management in Southern Africa
Peter Johnston, Arthur Chapman
27. Food and Water Security in West Asia
Eckart Woertz
28. Understanding Pesticides in England and Wales: Pathways, Policies, and Pollution Prevention
Frances C. Elwell, Nikolaus J. Clemenz, Nicola J. Nineham
29. Cape Town's Contested Hierarchy of Demand for Agricultural and Municipal Water in a Rainfed Economy 2017-18
Anthony Colman
Part III: Key Supply Chains
30. Global Wheat Value Chains
Ghada Ahmed
31. Water for Coffee
John Schluter
32. Water and Rice Production: Looking to the Future
Phil Riddell, Biksham Gujja
33. Oil Palm Value Chain Management
Denis Murphy
34. Successes and Problems with Measuring Water Consumption in Beef Systems
Mieghan Bruce, Camille Bellet, Jonathan Rushton
Part IV: Responding to the Challenge
35. The Potential Impact of Improved Water Management to Alleviate Water Scarcity and Hunger: A Global Perspective
Dieter Gerten, Jonas Jägermeyr
36. The Global Uptake of Conservation Agriculture and the Impact on Water-related Ecosystem Services
Amir Kassam, David Coates
37. A Farmer's Experience of Conservation Agriculture in the UK
Anthony J. Reynolds
38. The Variable Rate Irrigation Management Challenge
James Lowenberg-DeBoer
39. The Water Infrastructure Crisis
Phil Riddell
40. Integrating Multi-Capital Thinking into Business Decisions
Jyoti Banerjee
41. Modelling Agricultural Controls for Flooding and Soil Erosion
Roger Moussa, Bruno Cheviron
42. Water Management by Farmers
Laurence Smith
43. The Role of New and Green Water Resources in Localizing Water and Food Security Under Arid and Semi-Arid Conditions
Rabi Mohtar, Amjad Assi
44. Disruptive Food Supply Chains: Bringing it all Back Home
Tony Beck
45. Lab-grown Meat: Can It Change the World?
Martin Keulertz
Conclusions
46. Food, Water and the Consequences of Society not Valuing the Environment
Tony Allan
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 16.09.2019 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Oxford Handbooks |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 249 x 175 mm |
| Gewicht | 1769 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Rechnungswesen / Bilanzen | |
| Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Spezielle Betriebswirtschaftslehre ► Immobilienwirtschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-066979-9 / 0190669799 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-066979-9 / 9780190669799 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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