The Water We Eat Combining Virtual Water and Water Footprints
This book pursues a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach in order to analyze the relationship between water and food security. It demonstrates that most of the world’s economies lack sufficient water resources to secure their populations’ food requir
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Marta Antonelli Francesca Greco Editors
The Water We Eat Combining Virtual Water and Water Footprints
Springer Water
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Marta Antonelli Francesca Greco •
Editors
The Water We Eat Combining Virtual Water and Water Footprints
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Editors Marta Antonelli University IUAV of Venice Venice Italy
Springer Water ISBN 978-3-319-16392-5 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-16393-2
Francesca Greco Department of Geography King’s College London London UK
ISBN 978-3-319-16393-2
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Foreword
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) The most recent world summit on sustainable development, held in Rio de Janeiro in June 2012 (Rio +20), clearly stated the central role of water in all human activities and in nature as a whole. Over the next 40 years, our planet will have to develop facing an unprecedented and increasing scarcity of natural resources, such as first and foremost water. The main driver of this difficult future is the growing world population, which will quickly go from today’s nearly seven billion people to over nine billion people in 2050; at that point, mere basic drinking and nutritional needs will put natural resources under extraordinary pressure, further exacerbated by the impact of climate change. Food production will be the activity that will cause the biggest increase in water consumption, hence the FAO’s slogan “The world is thirsty because it is hungry”, coined for the 2012 World Water Day, dedicated precisely to water and food security. However, this close connection between water consumption (through crop’s transpiration) and food product
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