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Virtual Water Trade and the potential gains for ACP countries Tony Allan, SOAS & King ’ s College London.

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  1. Virtual Water Trade and the potential gains for ACP countriesTony Allan, SOAS & King’s College London Brussels - April 2011

  2. Water securityThe purpose of the presentation will be to highlight many invisible and silent processes that enable most of the world’s 200 economies to be [big] water secure. Water security for the small volumes needed for municipal and industrial uses will be distinguished from water security for the food needs of society. Small water security is only a problem for the poor. But 80% of the world’s economies are dependent on the 15% of water embedded in the trade in food commodities to be food water insecure. Only France out of the 27 EU economies is a net food exporter. Brussels - April 2011

  3. Who does what in this water securing regime?Farmers, a small number of transnational commodity traders and consumerswill be identified as the key agents in achieving global water and food security. These agents are all linked in market systems that do not have mechanisms to signal where water is being used efficiently or according to sound stewardship principles. There are a number of technologies, reforms and changes in behaviour that will be key to the sustainable intensification of water use in agriculture. Brussels - April 2011

  4. Who does what in this water securing regime?Farmers, a small number of transnational commodity traders and consumerswill be identified as the key agents in achieving global water and food security. These agents are all linked in market systems that do not have mechanisms to signal where water is being used efficiently or according to sound stewardship principles. There are a number of technologies, reforms and changes in behaviour that will be key to the sustainable intensification of water use in agriculture. Brussels - April 2011

  5. Brussels - April 2011 p30

  6. SIWI World Water Week 2008 2008 Morelli/Hoekstra

  7. SIWI World Water Week 2008

  8. SIWI World Water Week 2008

  9. National water for domestic use SIWI World Water Week 2008

  10. National water for food etc SIWI World Water Week 2008

  11. Virtual water ‘trade’ from water surplus to water scare economies Hoekstra et al SIWI World Water Week 2008

  12. Hoekstra et al SIWI World Water Week 2008

  13. Hoekstra et al SIWI World Water Week 2008

  14. Thank you Brussels - April 2011

  15. Moving the minds of consumers Angela Morelli 2008 SIWI World Water Week 2008

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