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Optimising the water we eat - rethinking policy to enhance productive and sustainable use of water in agri-food systems across scales

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  • Uhlenbrook, Stefan
  • Yu, W.
  • Schmitter, Petra
  • Smith, Douglas Mark

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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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  • 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," Papers published in Journals (Open Access), International Water Management Institute, pages 6(1):59-65..
    • Handle: RePEc:iwt:jounls:h050852
    DOI: 10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00264-3
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    1. Yu, Winston & Uhlenbrook, Stefan & von Gnechten, Rachel & van der Bliek, Julie, 2021. "Can water productivity improvements save us from global water scarcity?. White paper," IWMI Books, Reports H050553, International Water Management Institute.
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