Water Food And Welfare

Author : Rosario H. Perez-Espejo,Roberto M. Constantino-Toto,Hilda R. Davila-Ibanez
Publisher : Springer
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319288246

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Water, Food and Welfare by Rosario H. Perez-Espejo,Roberto M. Constantino-Toto,Hilda R. Davila-Ibanez Pdf

This book addresses the following topics: the contemporary model for water management and alternative approaches; the socioeconomic framework, water policy and institutions; water use for food purposes, water-resources inventory and irrigation; manifestations of welfare loss and water prices; change in dietary patterns and water security; hydrological stress and pressures on water availability; groundwater management problems; vulnerability and climate change; water demand of major crops; gray water footprint and water pollution; gray water footprint and mining; virtual water and food trade; estimates of the water footprint of four key cereals, forage, livestock and bottled drinks. It is the result of a cooperation between 16 researchers from eleven Mexican academic institutions.

Author : Úrsula Oswald Spring
Publisher : Springer
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319947129

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Úrsula Oswald Spring: Pioneer on Gender, Peace, Development, Environment, Food and Water by Úrsula Oswald Spring Pdf

This book aims to initiate among students and other readers critical and interdisciplinary reflections on key problems concerning development, gender relations, peace and environment, with a special emphasis on North-South relations. This volume offers a selection of the author's research in different parts of the world during 50 years of contributing to an interdisciplinary scientific debate and addressing social answers to urgent global problems. After the author's biography and bibliography, the second part analyses the development processes of several countries in the South that resulted in a dynamic of underdevelopment. The deep-rooted gender discrimination is also reflected in the destructive exploitation of natural resources and the pollution of soils, water and air. Since the beginning of the Anthropocene in the mid-20th century, the management of human society and global resources has been unsustainable and has created global environmental change and multiple conflicts over scarce and polluted resources. Peace and development policies aiming at gender equity and sustainable environmental management, where water and food are crucial for the survival of humankind, focus on systemic alternatives embedded in a path of sustainability transition. • This book reviews multiple influences from Europe, Africa and Latin America on a leading social scientist and activist on gender, development and environment aiming at a world with equity, sustainability, peace and harmony between nature and humans.• This pioneer volume analyses social and environmental conflicts and peace processes in Latin America, with a special focus on Mexico, by addressing the development of under-development, global environmental change, poverty, nutrition and the North-South gap.• This volume focuses on environmental deterioration with a special emphasis on food and water and proposes systemic changes towards a sustainability transition with peace, regional development and gender equity.• This pioneering work offers alternative approaches to regional development, food sovereignty and holistic development processes from a gender perspective.

Author : David Molden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781136548536

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Water for Food Water for Life by David Molden Pdf

Managing water resources is one of the most pressing challenges of our times - fundamental to how we feed 2 billion more people in coming decades, eliminate poverty, and reverse ecosystem degradation. This Comprehensive Assessment of Water Management in Agriculture, involving more than 700 leading specialists, evaluates current thinking on water and its interplay with agriculture to help chart the way forward. It offers actions for water management and water policy - to ensure more equitable and effective use. This assessment describes key water-food-environment trends that influence our lives today and uses scenarios to explore the consequences of a range of potential investments. It aims to inform investors and policymakers about water and food choices in light of such crucial influences as poverty, ecosystems, governance, and productivity. It covers rainfed agriculture, irrigation, groundwater, marginal-quality water, fisheries, livestock, rice, land, and river basins. Ample tables, graphs, and references make this an invaluable work for practitioners, academics, researchers, and policymakers in water management, agriculture, conservation, and development. Published with IWMI.

Author : M. Dinesh Kumar,M. V. K. Sivamohan,Nitin Bassi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415624077

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Water Management, Food Security and Sustainable Agriculture in Developing Economies by M. Dinesh Kumar,M. V. K. Sivamohan,Nitin Bassi Pdf

India is a fast developing economy whose natural resource base, comprising land and water supporting agricultural production, are not only under enormous stress, but also complex and not amenable to a uniform strategy. This book addresses strategies for food security and sustainable agriculture in India, including lessons to be learned in other developing economies across the world.

Author : Eric Lichtfouse
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789400745001

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Farming for Food and Water Security by Eric Lichtfouse Pdf

Sustainable agriculture is a rapidly growing field aiming at producing food and energy in a sustainable way for our children. This discipline addresses current issues such as climate change, increasing food and fuel prices, starvation, obesity, water pollution, soil erosion, fertility loss, pest control and biodiversity depletion. Novel solutions are proposed based on integrated knowledge from agronomy, soil science, molecular biology, chemistry, toxicology, ecology, economy, philosophy and social sciences. As actual society issues are now intertwined, sustainable agriculture will bring solutions to build a safer world. This book series analyzes current agricultural issues and proposes alternative solutions, consequently helping all scientists, decision-makers, professors, farmers and politicians wishing to build safe agriculture, energy and food systems for future generations.

Author : Peter Saundry,Benjamin L. Ruddell
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030299149

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The Food-Energy-Water Nexus by Peter Saundry,Benjamin L. Ruddell Pdf

This will be the first textbook on the integration of food, energy and water systems (FEWS). In recent years, the world has seen a dramatic rise in interdisciplinary energy and environmental courses and degrees at the undergraduate and graduate levels. In the US for instance, the number and variety of such programs has increased significantly over the past decade, Simultaneously, national and international initiatives that integrate food, energy and water systems have been launched. This textbook provides a substantive introduction to the food-energy-water nexus suitable for use in higher level undergraduate and graduate level courses and for scholars moving into the field of nexus studies without a strong background in all three areas and the many aspects of nexus studies.

Author : Larry W. Harrington,Myles J. Fisher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317916376

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Water Scarcity, Livelihoods and Food Security by Larry W. Harrington,Myles J. Fisher Pdf

This volume reviews the evolution of ten years’ learning and discovery about water scarcity, livelihoods, and food security within the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food. It draws on the experiences of over 100 projects conducted in ten river basins in the developing world. The book describes how the program’s design evolved from an emphasis on water scarcity, water productivity, and water access to an emphasis on using water innovations to improve livelihoods and address development challenges in specific river basins. It shows how the research was used to foster change in stakeholder behavior, linking it to improved knowledge, attitudes, and skills, which were fostered by stakeholder participation, innovation, dialogue, and negotiation. The authors describe development challenges, their drivers and their political context, how to address them through technical, institutional, and policy innovations; and the consequences of change at different scales, time frames on equity, resilience, and ecosystem services. Overall, the work represents a major synthesis and landmark publication for all concerned with water resource management and sustainable development.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Diquat
ISBN : 0660395487

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Guidelines for Canadian Drinking Water Quality by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mohamed Behnassi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031509629

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The Water, Climate, and Food Nexus by Mohamed Behnassi Pdf

Author : Cinzia Caporale,Ilja Richard Pavone,Maria Pia Ragionieri
Publisher : Kluwer Law International B.V.
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789403518121

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International Food Law by Cinzia Caporale,Ilja Richard Pavone,Maria Pia Ragionieri Pdf

estation, habitat destruction and zoonoses; food naming and labelling; and food risk management. Throughout there is reference to an abundance of legislation, treaties, conventions, and case law at domestic, regional, and international levels, with particular attention to European, US, and World Trade Organization law and the work of the FAO. The book clearly demonstrates the necessity for reform of the global system of food production in the direction of a more sustainable and environment-friendly model. In its authoritative discussion of the relations among fields of law that are rarely discussed together – food law and the environment, food law and human rights, food law and animal welfare – this collection of chapters will prove a valuable resource both for officials working in food governance and security and for lawyers and scholars concerned with environmental management, sustainable development, and human rights around the world.

Author : Brenda Cansino-Loeza,José Maria Ponce-Ortega
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780443135729

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The Water-Energy-Food Nexus by Brenda Cansino-Loeza,José Maria Ponce-Ortega Pdf

The Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Optimization Models for Decision Making covers the discussion about water, energy, and food as a crucial resource for human well-being and for sustainable development. These resources are inextricable interrelated, therefore, to cover water, energy, and food demands in different sectors and at different scales, it must be considered several sources to produce resources even conventional or unconventional, and there must be considered the interlinkages of resources for a proper integration. This book will emphasize several issues that must be considered in the design of water-energy-food nexus systems such as the selection of technologies to produce water or energy, size of technologies and food required to cover nutritional demands. Therefore, in The Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Optimization Models for Decision Making, mathematical models are presented for the design of water-energy-food nexus systems involving several strategies to account for issues like sustainable development, security of resources, interest in conflicts from stakeholders, and efficient allocation of resources. Includes different optimization models for the integration of water-energy-food nexus Considers sustainability criteria in the presented models Helps readers understand different approaches for trade-off solutions Presents general software that can be used in solving different problems

Author : Canada. Health and Welfare Canada. Communications/Implementation Committee
Publisher : The Committee
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Diet
ISBN : UCBK:C031313176

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Action Towards Healthy Eating-- by Canada. Health and Welfare Canada. Communications/Implementation Committee Pdf

This report presents comprehensive strategies for communicating and implementing the nutrition recommendations suggested in the report of the Scientific Review Committee, including a translation of the updated nutrition recommendations. The report contains Canada's guidelines for healthy eating; current nutrition practices of the population and gaps between current and recommended practices; analysis of existing nutrition activities, programs, methods and materials that are directed to the public; opportunities and challenges for implementation; existing infrastructure for implementing Canada's guidelines; key examples of current nutrition intervention programs; and recommendations for action to nutrition and other health professionals, governments, food and related industries, non-governmental health organizations and the public.

Author : João Rafael da Costa Sanches Galvão,Paulo Sérgio Duque de Brito,Filipe dos Santos Neves,Flávio Gabriel da Silva Craveiro,Henrique de Amorim Almeida,Joel Oliveira Correia Vasco,Luís Miguel Pires Neves,Ricardo de Jesus Gomes,Sandra de Jesus Martins Mourato,Vânia Sofia Santos Ribeiro
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 947 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030753153

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Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Water Energy Food and Sustainability (ICoWEFS 2021) by João Rafael da Costa Sanches Galvão,Paulo Sérgio Duque de Brito,Filipe dos Santos Neves,Flávio Gabriel da Silva Craveiro,Henrique de Amorim Almeida,Joel Oliveira Correia Vasco,Luís Miguel Pires Neves,Ricardo de Jesus Gomes,Sandra de Jesus Martins Mourato,Vânia Sofia Santos Ribeiro Pdf

This book presents the proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Water Energy Food and Sustainability – ICoWEFS 2021, a major forum to foster innovation and exchange knowledge in the water-energy-food nexus, embracing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations, bringing together leading academics, researchers and industrial experts. It contains the work of authors from 33 countries.

Author : P. Abdul Salam,Sangam Shrestha,Vishnu Prasad Pandey,Anil Kumar Anal
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781119243168

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Water-Energy-Food Nexus by P. Abdul Salam,Sangam Shrestha,Vishnu Prasad Pandey,Anil Kumar Anal Pdf

Water, energy and food are key resources to sustain life, and are the fundamental to national, regional and global economies. These three resources are interlinked in multiple ways, and the term “nexus” captures the interconnections. The nexus has been discussed, debated, researched, and advocated widely but the focus is often on the pairings of “water-energy” or “water-food” or “energy-food”. To really benefit from the nexus approach in terms of resource use efficiency it is essential to understand, operationalize and practice the nexus of all three resources. As demand for these resources increases worldwide, using them sustainability is a critical concern for scientists and citizens, governments and policy makers. Volume highlights include: Contributions to the global debate on water-energy-food nexus Examples of the nexus approach in practice from different regions of the world Perspectives on the future of the nexus agenda Water-Energy-Food Nexus: Theories and Practices is a valuable resource for students, research scholars and professionals in academic institutions with strong interests in interdisciplinary research involving geography, earth science, environmental science, environmental management, sustainability science, international development, and ecological economics. The volume will also be useful for professionals, practitioners and consultants in /NGOs, government, and international agencies. Read an interview with the editors to find out more: https://eos.org/editors-vox/working-towards-a-sustainable-future

Author : Myles J. Fisher,Simon E. Cook
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781135724276

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Water, Food and Poverty in River Basins by Myles J. Fisher,Simon E. Cook Pdf

Conventional wisdom says that the world is heading for a major water crisis. By 2050, global population will increase from 7 billion to a staggering 9.5 billion and the demands this will place on food and water systems will inevitably push river basins over the edge. The findings from this book present a different picture. While it is convenient to visualize an inevitable global water and food crisis in which increasing demands result in increasing poverty, food insecurity and conflict, the reality is far more nuanced and revolves around the politics of equitable and sustainable development of resources. The first part of this book provides detailed insight into conditions of water flows within nine river basins. In the second part, authors summarize and re-analyze the outcome of the nine basins, providing a coherent global picture of water, water productivity and development. They assess the impacts of variations of these attributes on development and approaches for poverty alleviation, and explore the institutional factors that support or obstruct change. How people will manage river systems while protecting vital ecosystem functions will make the difference between catastrophe and survival. As Prof Asit Biswas points out, "... the world is facing a water crisis not because of physical scarcity of water but because of poor management practices in nearly all countries of the world." The book is based on the four years (2006-2010) of extensive research into the state of ten of the world’s major river basins carried out under the CGIAR Challenge Program for Water and Food’s Basin Focal Project. This book was published as a special issue of Water International.