Optimising the water we eat—rethinking policy to enhance productive and sustainable use of water in agri-food systems across scales

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dc.creatorUhlenbrook, Stefan
dc.creatorYu, W.
dc.creatorSchmitter, Petra S.
dc.creatorSmith, Mark
dc.date2022-01
dc.date2022-01-07T10:05:06Z
dc.date2022-01-07T10:05:06Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T18:24:03Z
dc.descriptionSustainable and resilient food systems depend on sustainable and resilient water management. Resilience is characterised by overlapping decision spaces and scales and interdependencies among water users and competing sectors. Increasing water scarcity, due to climate change and other environmental and societal changes, makes putting caps on the consumption of water resources indispensable. Implementation requires an understanding of different domains, actors, and their objectives, and drivers and barriers to transformational change. We suggest a scale-specific approach, in which agricultural water use is embedded in a larger systems approach (including natural and human systems). This approach is the basis for policy coherence and the design of effective incentive schemes to change agricultural water use behaviour and, therefore, optimise the water we eat.
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/117373
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/154640
dc.languageen
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceUhlenbrook, Stefan; Yu, W.; Schmitter, Petra; Smith, Douglas Mark. 2022. Optimising the water we eat—rethinking policy to enhance productive and sustainable use of water in agri-food systems across scales. Lancet Planetary Health, 6(1):E59-E65. [doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(21)00264-3]
dc.subjectagricultural water use
dc.subjectsustainable use
dc.subjectwater use efficiency
dc.subjectagrifood systems
dc.subjectpolicies
dc.subjectagricultural production
dc.subjectfood production
dc.subjectfood security
dc.subjectwater resources
dc.subjectwater scarcity
dc.subjectwater productivity
dc.subjectwater management
dc.subjectgroundwater
dc.subjectwater users
dc.subjectclimate change
dc.subjectresilience
dc.subjectsustainable development goals
dc.titleOptimising the water we eat—rethinking policy to enhance productive and sustainable use of water in agri-food systems across scales
dc.typeJournal Article

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