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Widespread recognition of water scarcity threat, especially in agriculture …but much can be done

A vision of water for food challenges and opportunities beyond 2020 Jonathan Woolley, Director CPWF. Main points. Widespread recognition of water scarcity threat, especially in agriculture …but much can be done Opportunities (examples): Better management of rainwater

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Widespread recognition of water scarcity threat, especially in agriculture …but much can be done

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  1. A vision of water for food challenges and opportunities beyond 2020Jonathan Woolley, Director CPWF

  2. Main points Widespread recognition of water scarcity threat, especially in agriculture …but much can be done Opportunities (examples): Better management of rainwater Sharing of resources, not just water Innovative ways for people to work together.

  3. 2 - 5 litres daily 20 – 500 litres daily 500 – 3000 litres per kg 2000 l/day - vegetarian diet 5000 l/day - grainfed meat diet Agriculture is a huge water user, and a huge opportunity

  4. Opportunity: better management of rainwater

  5. Action to deal with the water crisis Today Practices like today CA Scenario Comprehensive Assessment (CA) scenario: Policies for productivity gains, upgrading rainfed, revitalized irrigation, trade

  6. Range of Agricultural Water Management Options(source David Molden, IWMI)

  7. Upgrading rainfed systems Rainwater management has a high potential for increasing livelihood resilience through crops, fisheries and livestock 8

  8. Opportunity: sharing of benefits from water

  9. Sharing: Locally Win-win situations are rare in water. Need to share. Sharing goes beyond WATER sharing, to assigning water to higher value uses, and sharing the BENEFITS with those who give up water. Example: urban-based trust funds invest in upland farming practices

  10. Local adaptation to climate change

  11. Sharing: International “Sharing” at present is export of food from water rich to water scarce countries. Only about 6% of agricultural water use involved Climate change to 2070 is predicted to increase cereal production in temperate latitudes, while reducing it in tropical latitudes Total food production likely to be sufficient until 2070. How will it be shared?

  12. Opportunity: ways of working together

  13. Socially Complicated Build relationships, create common ground Zone of Complexity Agreement Technically Complicated Experiment, coordinate expertise Simple Plan, control Close to Far from Certainty Close to Resolving complex issues Formulaic solutions have limited applicability Past success is no guarantee of future success Expertise can help but is not sufficient; relationships are key Uncertainty of outcome remains Far from Source: Patton, 2007

  14. New ways of working

  15. Diversity of people increases innovation

  16. “Complex multi-sector problems need new ways of working: The really important issues facing society … cannot be tackled by any organization acting alone” Huxham and Vangen, 2005 “While hierarchies are not vanishing, profound changes in the nature of technology, demographics, and the global economy are giving rise to powerful new models of production based on community, collaboration, and self-organization rather than on hierarchy and control.”Tapscott and Williams, 2006.

  17. CPWF: www.waterandfood.org CA: www.iwmi.cgiar.org/Assessment/

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