The role of water in transforming food systems

Sammanfattning

The United Nations Food Systems Summit aimed to chart a path toward transforming food systems toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Despite the essentiality of water for food systems, however, the Summit has not sufficiently considered the role of water for food systems transformation. This focus is even more important due to rapidly worsening climate change and its pervasive impacts on food systems that are mediated through water. To avoid that water "breaks" food systems, key food systems actors should 1) Strengthen efforts to retain water-dependent ecosystems, their functions and services; 2) Improve agricultural water management; 3) Reduce water and food losses beyond the farmgate; 4) Coordinate water with nutrition and health interventions; 5) Increase the environmental sustainability of food systems; 6) Explicitly address social inequities; and 7) Improve data quality and monitoring for water-food system linkages.

Nyckelord

Food systems transformation; Water security; United Nations Food Systems Summit (UNFSS); Nutrition; Ecosystem health

Publicerad i

Global Food Security
2022, volym: 33, artikelnummer: 100639
Utgivare: ELSEVIER

SLU författare

• Barron, Jennie

  • Institutionen för mark och miljö, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

Globala målen (SDG)

SDG2 Ingen hunger
SDG6 Rent vatten och sanitet för alla

UKÄ forskningsämne

Livsmedelsvetenskap
Miljö- och naturvårdsvetenskap

Publikationens identifierare

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gfs.2022.100639

Permanent länk till denna sida (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/118035