Global Change: Impacts on Water and food Security
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 coun
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Editorial Board Dogan Altinbilek (Ankara, Turkey) Chennat Gopalakrishnan (Honolulu, USA) Jan Lundqvist (Linköping, Sweden) Alexandra Pres (Feldafing, Germany) Anthony Turton (Pretoria, SouthAfrica) Olli Varis (Helsinki, Finland) i
Claudia Ringler • Asit K. Biswas • Sarah A. Cline (Eds.)
Global Change: Impacts on Water and Food Security With 31 Figures and 34 Tables
Dr. Claudia Ringler International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) 2033 K. Street NW Washington DC 20006 USA [email protected] Prof. Asit K. Biswas Third World Centre for Water Management Avenida Manantial Oriente 27 52958 Los Clubes, Atizapan Mexico [email protected]
ISBN: 978-3-642-04614-8
Dr. Sarah A. Cline United States Department of Agriculture Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) 4700 River Road Riverdale MD 20737 USA [email protected]
e-ISBN: 978-3-642-04615-5
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-04615-5 Water Resources Development and Management ISSN: 1614-810X Library of Congress Control Number: 2009938031 © 2010, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Cover illustration: SPi Printed on acid-free paper 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 springer.com
Preface
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 financing 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 economic 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 thre
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