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Global Change: Impacts on Water and food Security

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Editors:
  1. Claudia Ringler

    1. Research Institute (IFPRI), International Food Policy, Washington, U.S.A.

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  2. Asit K. Biswas

    1. Third World Centre for Water Management, Los Clubes, Atizapan, Mexico

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  3. Sarah Cline

    1. Animal & Plant Health Inspection, United States Department of Agriculture, Riverdale, U.S.A.

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  • Examines impact of global change on water and food security and identifies avenues for policy reform and investment based on the outcome of these processes
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Water Resources Development and Management (WRDM)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Water for Food Security Under Growing Scarcity

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Water and Food Security Under Global Change

      • Claudia Ringler, Elizabeth Bryan, Asit Biswas, Sarah A. Cline
      Pages 3-15

    3. Global Water and Food Security: Megatrends and Emerging Issues

      • Mark W. Rosegrant, Sarah A. Cline, Rowena A. Valmonte-Santos
      Pages 17-47

    4. Implications of Global Climatic Change on Water and Food Security

      • P. K. Aggarwal, A. K. Singh
      Pages 49-63

    5. Biofuels, Food Security, and the Environment: A 2020/2050 Perspective

      • Siwa Msangi, Mandy Ewing, Mark W. Rosegrant, Tingju Zhu
      Pages 65-94

  3. Trade for Water and Food Security-Help or Harm for the Poor?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 96-96
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    2. Implications of Globalization and Trade for Water Quality in Transboundary Rivers

      • Hilary Sigman, Howard F. Chang
      Pages 97-111

    3. Failure of the Virtual Water Argument: Possible Explanations Using the Case Study of Mexico and NAFTA

      • Jorge Ramirez-Vallejo, Peter Rogers
      Pages 113-126

    4. Globalization and Fisheries: Welfare Implications of Export Trade in Asia

      • Roehlano M. Briones, Madan Dey, Mahfuzuddin Ahmed
      Pages 127-140

  4. How to Finance Water for the Poor in a Globalized World

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 142-142
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    2. Global Trends in Financing Water

      • James Winpenny
      Pages 143-167

    3. Private-Sector Participation in Water and Sanitation Services: The Answer to Public Sector Failures?

      • José Esteban Castro
      Pages 169-193

    4. Mobilizing Investment for Municipal Water Supply Services

      • Suzanne Gallagher O’Neal
      Pages 195-208

    5. Water, Water Services and International Investment Agreements

      • Miguel Solanes
      Pages 209-234

  5. Conclusions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 236-236
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    2. Global Change: Options for Reform

      • Claudia Ringler, Asit Biswas, Sarah A. Cline
      Pages 237-248

    3. Appendix

      • Claudia Ringler, Asit K. Biswas, Sarah A. Cline
      Pages 249-260

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 261-265
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About this book

In recent years, a greater level of integration of the world economy and an opening of national markets to trade has impacted virtually all areas of society. The process of globalization has the potential to generate long-term benefits for developing countries, including enhanced technology and knowledge transfers and new fina- ing options supporting agricultural and economic development. However, risks of political and economic instability, increased inequality, and losses in agricultural income and production for countries that subsidize their agricultural and other e- nomic sectors threaten to offset potential benefits. Globalization can also have a profound impact on the water sector – in terms of allocation and use of water – and thus on food security as well. Other global change processes, particularly climate change, are also likely to have far-reaching impacts on water and food security, and societies around the world. To discuss these issues in-depth, the International Food Policy Research Institute, the Third World Centre for Water Management, Mexico, and the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE), Costa Rica, held a three-day International Conference on “Globalization and Trade: Implications for Water and Food Security,” at CATIE’s Turrialba, Costa Rica, headquarters under the auspices of the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food in 2005. The workshop set out to identify the major risks and emerging issues facing developing countries related to global economic and environmental change impacts on water and food security.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Research Institute (IFPRI), International Food Policy, Washington, U.S.A.

    Claudia Ringler

  • Third World Centre for Water Management, Los Clubes, Atizapan, Mexico

    Asit K. Biswas

  • Animal & Plant Health Inspection, United States Department of Agriculture, Riverdale, U.S.A.

    Sarah Cline

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