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Author : Mark W. Rosegrant,Ximing Cai,Sarah A. Cline
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780896296466
A thirsty world; Alternative futures for water; Consequences of key policy changes; Implications for the future.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : IWMI
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Irrigation
ISBN : 9789290903543
Presents two alternative scenarios of water demand and supply for 118 countries over the 1990 to 2025 period and develops indicators of water scarcity for each country and for the world as a whole. This study is the first step in IWMI’s long-term research goal: to determine the extent and depth of water scarcity, its consequences for individual countries and what can be done about it.
Author : The World Economic Forum Water Initiative
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-24
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781610910262
The world is on the brink of the greatest crisis it has ever faced: a spiraling lack of fresh water. Groundwater is drying up, even as water demands for food production, for energy, and for manufacturing are surging. Water is already emerging as a headline geopolitical issue—and worsening water security will soon have dire consequences in many parts of the global economic system. Directed by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon at the 2008 Davos Annual Meeting, the World Economic Forum assembled the world’s foremost group of public, private, non-governmental-organization and academic experts to examine the water crisis issue from all perspectives. The result of their work is this forecast—a stark, non-technical overview of where we will be by 2025 if we take a business-as-usual approach to (mis)managing our water resources. The findings are shocking. Perhaps equally stunning are the potential solutions and the recommendations that the group presents. All are included in this landmark publication. Water Security contains compelling commentary from leading decision-makers, past and present. The commentary is supported by analysis from leading academics of how the world economy will be affected if world leaders cannot agree on solutions. The book suggests how business and politics need to manage the energy-food-water-climate axis as leaders negotiate the details of the climate regime that replace Kyoto Protocols.
Author : Upali A. Amarasinghe,Vladimir Smakhtin
Publisher : IWMI
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789290907930
A review of global water demand projections (WDPs) show substantial over- or under-estimation. The pre-1990 WDPs, with population as the main driver of change, over-projected current water use by 20 to 130%. The post-1990 WDPs, with sophisticated modeling frameworks, show substantial underestimation under the ‘business-as-usual’ scenarios and are more downward biased under sustainable scenarios. Overall, the value of long-term country-level projections in global WDPs is inadequate for local water resource planning. To increase the accuracy and value of global WDPs, future WDPs should take into account the spatial variation and influence of rapidly changing key exogenous and endogenous drivers of water demand in different sectors across and within countries, and provide a sensitivity analysis of projections.
Author : Amarasinghe, Upali, Shah, Tushaar, Turral, Hugh, Anand, B. K.
Publisher : IWMI
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Water resources development
ISBN : 9789290906872
With a rapidly expanding economy many changes are taking place in India today. The business-as-usual (BAU) scenario, which assumes the continuation of current trends of key water demand drivers, will meet the future food demand. However, it leads to a severe regional water crisis by 2050, where many river basins will reach closure, will be physically water-scarce and will have regions with severely overexploited groundwater resources. While the alternative scenarios of water demand show both optimistic and pessimistic water futures, the scenario with additional productivity growth is the most optimistic, with significant scope for reducing future water demand.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Bioversity International
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789290437482
Author : Hans Günter Brauch,Navnita Chadha Behera,Patricia Kameri-Mbote,John Grin,Úrsula Oswald Spring,Béchir Chourou,Czeslaw Mesjasz,Heinz Krummenacher
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1544 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540684886
The year 2007 could perhaps accurately be described as the year when climate change finally received the attention that this challenge deserves globally. Much of the information and knowledge that was created in this field during the year was the result of the findings of the Fourth - sessment Report (AR4) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which were disseminated on a large scale and reported extensively by the media. This was the result not only of a heightened interest on the part of the public on various aspects of climate change, but also because the IPCC itself proactively attempted to spread the findings of its AR4 to the public at large. The interest generated on the scientific realities of climate change was further enhanced by the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to the IPCC and former Vice President of the US, Al Gore. By taking this decision in favour of a leader who has done a great deal to create awareness on c- mate change, and a body that assesses all scientific aspects of climate change and disseminates the result of its findings, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has clearly drawn the link between climate change and peace in the world.
Author : Fereidoun Ghassemi,Ian White
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781139463041
Using the experiences of large water infrastructure projects involving the transfer of water from basins considered to have surplus water to those where the demand for water has exceeded or is expected to exceed supplies, this book examines case studies within diverse geographical, climatic, economic, and policy regimes.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Food supply
ISBN : OCLC:939633379
Author : Myles Fisher,Simon Cook
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781135724207
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.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : IWMI
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Grain
ISBN : 9789290905547
Author : Colin G. Scanes,John A. Miranowski
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-19
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780470290071
Written by a team of international researchers, scientists, and academics, Perspectives of World Food and Agriculture 2004 comprises the latest, most up-to-date information in global agricultural. With a list of international contributors that reads like a "Who’s Who?" in agricultural research, this volume brings together some of the most cutting-edge agricultural research being done today. This popular annual publication includes: Global agricultural statistics Trends in the food marketing system Agricultural policies Global food insecurity (a contribution from UNFAO) Ethics of agriculture Success in developing sustainable agriculture systems Efficacy and safety of plant biotechnology An invited review by the World Food Laureate Researchers and research libraries alike will delight in the "Frontiers" portion of this book. As its name suggests, this section delivers reports on the latest breakthroughs in agriculture research. Aimed at faculty in colleges of agriculture, undergraduate and graduate students, policy makers, government and industry scientists, public libraries, farmers and agribusiness operators, this book is the key to keeping current on agricultural research and policy.
Author : International Water Management Institute
Publisher : IWMI
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2000-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789290904038
Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789251099773
This report first provides an outlook for the agricultural and food market and highlights the challenges that population trends, rising global incomes and climate change present to agriculture and water. The following section focuses on two broad areas that require attention and presents recommendations on: (i) policies within the agricultural domain that apply specifically to the sector, such as water supply enhancement, water loss reduction, crop productivity, water re-allocation, and options for rainfed agriculture; and (ii) actions within the water domain that relate to water management for all sectors, not only agriculture.
Author : Marta Antonelli,Francesca Greco
Publisher : Springer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319163932
This book pursues a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach in order to analyze the relationship between water and food security. It demonstrates that most of the world’s economies lack sufficient water resources to secure their populations’ food requirements and are thus virtual importers of water. One of the most inspiring cases, which this book is rooted in, is Italy: the third largest net virtual water importer on earth. The book also shows that the sustainability of water depends on the extent to which societies recognize and take into account its value and contribution to agricultural production. Due to the large volumes of water required for food production, water and food security are in fact inextricably linked. Contributions from leading international experts and scholars in the field use the concepts of virtual water and water footprints to explain this relationship, with an eye to the empirical examples of wine, tomato and pasta production in Italy. This book provides a valuable resource for all researchers, professionals, policymakers and everyone else interested in water and food security.
