Stockholm International Water Institute » Torkil Jønch Clausen http://www.siwi.org Water Wise World Tue, 12 Feb 2013 15:26:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Feeding a thirsty world: Challenges and opportunities for a water and food secure world http://www.siwi.org/publication/feeding-a-thirsty-world-challenges-and-opportunities-for-a-water-and-food-secure-world/ http://www.siwi.org/publication/feeding-a-thirsty-world-challenges-and-opportunities-for-a-water-and-food-secure-world/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:57:51 +0000 admin http://www.siwi.org/publication/feeding-a-thirsty-world-challenges-and-opportunities-for-a-water-and-food-secure-world/ This report presents the latest thinking and new approaches to emerging and persistent challenges to achieve food security in the 21st century. It focuses on critical issues that have received less attention in the literature to date, such as: food waste, land acquisitions, gender aspects of agriculture, and early warning systems for agricultural emergencies. It also offers perspectives on how to better manage water and food linkages.

Published in 2012.

Addendum

This addendum clarifies issues relating to the research results published in:

Falkenmark, M. (2012) ‘Food security: overcoming water scarcity realities’, in Feeding a Thirsty World: Challenges and Opportunities for a Water and Food Secure World, SIWI Report 31. Jägerskog, A. and Jønch Clausen, T., (ed). Stockholm International Water Institute, Stockholm.

Clarification of citation

The chapter is based on the in May 2012 latest accessible modeling in the well published multiyear research project at Stockholm Resilience Center starting in 2007. The project is being summarised in the book:

Rockström, J., Falkenmark, M., Folke, C., Lannerstad, M., Hoff, H., Heinke, J., Gordon, L., Enfors, E., & Barron, J. (2013). Confronting the water challenge in a turbulent world. Towards a green-blue resilience approach for global sustainability. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming.

The results presented in the chapter originate from work in progress. The forthcoming publication will consider additional water productivity gains for crop and livestock production, different fractions of animal source foods in the diet, and sensitivity of the analysis, depending on the chosen assumptions.

]]> http://www.siwi.org/publication/feeding-a-thirsty-world-challenges-and-opportunities-for-a-water-and-food-secure-world/feed/ 0 Reflecting on the “Integration” Aspects of the World Water Week http://www.siwi.org/publication/reflecting-on-the-%c2%93integration%c2%94-aspects-of-the-world-water-week/ http://www.siwi.org/publication/reflecting-on-the-%c2%93integration%c2%94-aspects-of-the-world-water-week/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:51:21 +0000 admin http://www.siwi.org/publication/reflecting-on-the-%c2%93integration%c2%94-aspects-of-the-world-water-week/ The World Water Week is, as it says, about ‘water’. It focuses on the role of water in our lives, from the daily needs of the individual human being, animal or plant, to the long term survival of our globe. As such the World Water Week is concerned with the water-related challenges of the poorest and hungry billion people in the developing countries for whom every day is a challenge to survive, as well as with the role of water in ensuring the long term sustainability and well-being of a rapidly growing world population with increasing demands for food, energy and other essentials. These challenges translate into a continuous stream of world ‘crises’ – financial crises, food crises, energy crises etc – all of which risk to be fuelled by the impacts of climate change, and all of which have strong water dimensions.’

Article in the Stockholm Water Front, issue no 3, 2011.

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