Achieving Water and Food Security in the MENA ...

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