Elevating the role of water resilience in food system dialogues

Nathanial Matthews; James Dalton; John Matthews; Holly Barclay; Jennie Barron; Dustin  Garrick; Line Gordon; Saleemul Huq; Tom Isman; Peter McCornick; Alqayam Meghji; Naho Mirumachi; Shehnaaz Moose; Mark Mulligan; Andrew Noble; Olga Petryniak; Jamie Pittock; Cibele Queiroz; Claudia Ringler; Mark Smith; Caroline Turner; Shuchi Vora; Louise Whiting

doi:10.1016/j.wasec.2022.100126

Elevating the role of water resilience in food system dialogues

Nathanial Matthews, James Dalton, John Matthews, Holly Barclay, Jennie Barron, Dustin Garrick, Line Gordon, Saleemul Huq, Tom Isman, Peter McCornick, Alqayam Meghji, Naho Mirumachi, Shehnaaz Moose, Mark Mulligan, Andrew Noble, Olga Petryniak, Jamie Pittock, Cibele Queiroz, Claudia Ringler, Mark SmithCaroline Turner, Shuchi Vora, Louise Whiting

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Ensuring resilient food systems and sustainable healthy diets for all requires much higher water use, however, water resources are finite, geographically dispersed, volatile under climate change, and required for other vital functions including ecosystems and the services they provide. Good governance for resilient water resources is a necessary precursor to deciding on solutions, sourcing finance, and delivering infrastructure. Six attributes that together provide a foundation for good governance to reduce future water risks to food systems are proposed. These attributes dovetail in their dual focus on incorporating adaptive learning and new knowledge, and adopting the types of governance systems required for water resilient food systems. The attributes are also founded in the need to greater recognise the role natural, healthy ecosystems play in food systems. The attributes are listed below and are grounded in scientific evidence and the diverse collective experience and expertise of stakeholders working across the science-policy interface: Adopting interconnected systems thinking that embraces the complexity of how we produce, distribute, and add value to food including harnessing the experience and expertise of stakeholders s; adopting multi-level inclusive governance and supporting inclusive participation; enabling continual innovation, new knowledge and learning, and information dissemination; incorporating diversity and redundancy for resilience to shocks; ensuring system preparedness to shocks; and planning for the long term. This will require food and water systems to pro-actively work together toward a socially and environmentally just space that considers the water and food needs of people, the ecosystems that underpin our food systems, and broader energy and equity concerns.

Original language	English
Article number	100126
Journal	Water Security
Volume	17
Early online date	26 Oct 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasec.2022.100126
Publication status	Published - Dec 2022

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Matthews, N., Dalton, J., Matthews, J., Barclay, H., Barron, J., Garrick, D., Gordon, L., Huq, S., Isman, T., McCornick, P., Meghji, A., Mirumachi, N., Moose, S., Mulligan, M., Noble, A., Petryniak, O., Pittock, J., Queiroz, C., Ringler, C., ... Whiting, L. (2022). Elevating the role of water resilience in food system dialogues. Water Security, 17, Article 100126. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasec.2022.100126

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