Achieving Water and Food Security in the MENA ...
Published on by Prof. Dr. Hilmi S. Salem, Professor, Executive Director, Consultant in Social
Achieving water and food security in the MENA: Evidence and potential for decoupling economic and population growth from national water needs
FOR CITATIONS: GILMONT, M., NASSAR, L., SALEM, H.S., Tal, N., HARPER, E., and RAYNER, S., 2016. Achieving Water and Food Security in the MENA: Evidence and Potential for Decoupling Economic and Population Growth from National Water Needs. Session 4: Water and Food Security, Environmental Challenges in the MENA Region: The Long Road from Conflict to Cooperation. SOAS Centenary Conference, London Middle East Institute, 12–13 October 2016, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS, University of London, London, UK. URL: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326246253_Achieving_water_and_food_security_in_the_MENA_Evidence_and_potential_for_decoupling_economic_and_population_growth_from_national_water_needs ABSTRACT:
By diversifying economies away from agriculture, importing the most water-intensive food requirements, improving agricultural water productivity, and developing of non-natural sources of water (including wastewater recycling and desalination), the upward trajectories of economic and population growth can be separated, or decoupled, from a need to mobilise increasing natural freshwater resources.
This paper presents a revised conceptual model for the four instruments of decoupling introduced above.
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Taxonomy
- Food Security
- Water Security
- Water Security
- Water Security