The role of water in transforming food systems
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The United Nations Food Systems Summit aimed to chart a path toward transforming food systems toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Despite the essentiality of water for food systems, however, the Summit has not sufficiently considered the role of water for food systems transformation. This focus is even more important due to rapidly worsening climate change and its pervasive impacts on food systems that are mediated through water. To avoid that water “breaks” food systems, key food systems actors should 1) Strengthen efforts to retain water-dependent ecosystems, their functions and services; 2) Improve agricultural water management; 3) Reduce water and food losses beyond the farmgate; 4) Coordinate water with nutrition and health interventions; 5) Increase the environmental sustainability of food systems; 6) Explicitly address social inequities; and 7) Improve data quality and monitoring for water-food system linkages.
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food systems, transformation, water security, water systems, water management, food security, nutrition security, ecosystems, environmental sustainability, climate change, sustainable development goals, goal 2 zero hunger, goal 6 clean water and sanitation, public health, diets, monitoring, data quality, social aspects, water, food systems transformation, nutrition, ecosystem resilience, un