Brief: Integrating Green Water Risks in Agricultural Commodities Supply Chains

dc.creatorDupont, Anna
dc.creatorVidal, Alain
dc.creatorAdolfsson, Elin
dc.creatorBuisson, Marie-Charlotte
dc.date2025-08-30
dc.date2026-03-13T06:54:20Z
dc.date2026-03-13T06:54:20Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T18:31:30Z
dc.descriptionGreen water, soil moisture, evapotranspiration, and rainfall, underpins agricultural production but remains unaccounted for in traditional water and supply chain risk models. Yet, failure to integrate green water management threatens food security, market stability, and ecosystem resilience. This policy brief demonstrates that integrating green water into impact assessments and resilience strategies is essential for both policymakers and businesses. Advancing granular research, upgrading monitoring, and leveraging new digital tools are critical steps toward closing the green water data gap and making supply chain more adaptive to water and climate risks. By acting on green water intelligence and aligning procurement, reporting, and policy frameworks around these metrics, companies enhance supply chain resilience and redirect financing towards landscape resilient regenerative models. This brief calls for a paradigm shift in water-smart supply chain governance.
dc.formatapplication/pdf
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/182100
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/158415
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Water Management Institute
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceDupont, Anna, Alain Vidal, Elin Adolfsson, and Marie-Charlotte Buisson. 2025. Brief: Integrating Green Water Risks in Agricultural Commodities Supply Chains. International Water Management Institute. 12p. https://doi.org/10.5337/2026.203.
dc.subjectgreen water
dc.subjectrisk
dc.subjectagricultural products
dc.subjectsupply chains
dc.subjectsoil moisture
dc.titleBrief: Integrating Green Water Risks in Agricultural Commodities Supply Chains
dc.typeBrief

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