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Food Systems Summit Brief: Water for Food Systems and Nutrition

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dc.creator Ringler, Claudia
dc.creator Agbonlahor, Mure
dc.creator Baye, Kaleab
dc.creator Barron, Jennie
dc.creator Hafeez, Mohsin
dc.creator Lundqvist, Jan
dc.creator Meenakshi, J.V.
dc.creator Mehta, Lyla
dc.creator Mekonnen, Dawit
dc.creator Rojas-Ortuste, Franz
dc.creator Tankibayeva, Aliya
dc.creator Uhlenbrook, Stefan
dc.date 2021-05-14T13:02:13Z
dc.date 2021-05-14T13:02:13Z
dc.date 2021-05
dc.date.accessioned 2022-05-26T08:45:42Z
dc.date.available 2022-05-26T08:45:42Z
dc.identifier Ringler, C.; Agbonlahor, M.; Baye, K.; Barron, J.; Hafeez, M.; Lundqvist, J.; Meenakshi, J.V.; Mehta, L.; Mekonnen, D.; Rojas-Ortuste, F.; Tankibayeva, A. and Uhlenbrook, S. (2021) Water for Food Systems and Nutrition, Food Systems Summit Brief, Scientific Group of the UN Food Systems Summit
dc.identifier https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/16604
dc.identifier https://sc-fss2021.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/FSS_Brief_water_food_system.pdf
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/198426
dc.description Access to sufficient and clean freshwater is essential for all life. Water is also essential for food system functioning: as a key input into food production, but also in processing and preparation, and as a food itself. Water scarcity and pollution are growing, affecting poorer populations, particularly food producers. Malnutrition levels are also on the rise, and this is closely linked to water scarcity. Achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 2 (SDG 2) and Sustainable Development Goal 6 (SDG 6) are co-dependent. Solutions to jointly improve food systems and water security outcomes that the United Nations Food Security Summit (UNFSS) should consider include: 1) Strengthening efforts to retain water-based ecosystems and their functions; 2) Improving agricultural water management for better diets for all; 3) Reducing water and food losses beyond the farmgate; 4) Coordinating water with nutrition and health interventions; 5) Increasing the environmental sustainability of food systems; 6) Explicitly addressing social inequities in water-nutrition linkages; and 7) Improving data quality and monitoring for water-food system linkages, drawing on innovations in information and communications technology (ICT).
dc.language en
dc.publisher Scientific Group of the UN Food Systems Summit 2021
dc.rights Food Systems Summit Briefs are prepared by researchers of Partners of the Scientific Group for the United Nations Food Systems Summit. They are made available under the responsibility of the authors. The views presented may not be attributed to the Scientific Group or to the partner organisations with which the authors are affiliated.
dc.rights https://www.ids.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/IDSOpenDocsExternalDocuments.pdf
dc.rights Scientific Group of the UN Food Systems Summit 2021
dc.subject Nutrition
dc.subject Water
dc.title Food Systems Summit Brief: Water for Food Systems and Nutrition
dc.type Other


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