Water for Food Security, Nutrition and Social Justice Paperback / softback
by Lyla Mehta, Theib Oweis, Claudia (International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington DC, USA) Ringler, Barbara Schreiner, Shiney Varghese
Part of the Pathways to Sustainability series
Paperback / softback
Description
This book is the first comprehensive effort to bring together Water, Food Security and Nutrition (FSN) in a way that goes beyond the traditional focus on irrigated agriculture.
Apart from looking at the role of water and sanitation for human well-being, it proposes alternative and more locally appropriate ways to address complex water management and governance challenges from the local to global levels against a backdrop of growing uncertainties. The authors challenge mainstream supply-oriented and neo-Malthusian visions that argue for the need to increase the land area under irrigation in order to feed the world’s growing population.
Instead, they argue for a reframing of the debate concerning production processes, waste, food consumption and dietary patterns whilst proposing alternative strategies to improve water and land productivity, putting the interests of marginalized and disenfranchized groups upfront. The book highlights how accessing water for FSN can be challenging for small-holders, vulnerable and marginalized women and men, and how water allocation systems and reform processes can negatively affect local people’s informal rights.
The book argues for the need to improve policy coherence across water, land and food and is original in making a case for strengthening the relationship between the human rights to water and food, especially for marginalized women and men.
It will be of great interest to practitioners, students and researchers working on water and food issues.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:232 pages, 2 Tables, black and white; 15 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Halftones, black and whit
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:03/10/2019
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Category:
- Development studies
- Development economics
- Environmental economics
- Agriculture & related industries
- Hydrology & the hydrosphere
- Global warming
- Alternative & renewable energy sources & technol..
- Civil engineering, surveying & building
- Environmental science, engineering & technology
- Agricultural science
- ISBN:9781138729186
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Information
-
Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:232 pages, 2 Tables, black and white; 15 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Halftones, black and whit
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:03/10/2019
-
Category:
- Development studies
- Development economics
- Environmental economics
- Agriculture & related industries
- Hydrology & the hydrosphere
- Global warming
- Alternative & renewable energy sources & technol..
- Civil engineering, surveying & building
- Environmental science, engineering & technology
- Agricultural science
- ISBN:9781138729186