Perspective: The importance of water security for ensuring food security, good nutrition, and well-being

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.crpWater, Land and Ecosystems
cg.contributor.donorUnited States Agency for International Developmenten
cg.contributor.donorCarnegie Corporation of New Yorken
cg.contributor.donorEunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Developmenten
cg.creator.identifierClaudia Ringler: 0000-0002-8266-0488
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1093/advances/nmab003en
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Feed the Future
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Environment and Production Technology Division
cg.identifier.publicationRankA plus
cg.identifier.wlethemeVariability, Risks and Competing Uses
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn2161-8313en
cg.issue4en
cg.journalAdvances in Nutritionen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.wleFOOD SECURITYen
cg.subject.wleWATER PRODUCTIVITYen
cg.subject.wleWATER USEen
cg.volume12en
dc.contributor.authorYoung, S. L.en
dc.contributor.authorFrongillo, E. A.en
dc.contributor.authorJamaluddine, Z.en
dc.contributor.authorMelgar-Quiñonez, H.en
dc.contributor.authorPérez Escamilla, R.en
dc.contributor.authorRingler, Claudiaen
dc.contributor.authorRosinger, A. Y.en
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-28T03:23:14Zen
dc.date.available2021-12-28T03:23:14Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/117250
dc.titlePerspective: The importance of water security for ensuring food security, good nutrition, and well-beingen
dcterms.abstractWater security is a powerful concept that is still in its early days in the field of nutrition. Given the prevalence and severity of water issues and the many interconnections between water and nutrition, we argue that water security deserves attention commensurate with its importance to human nutrition and health. To this end, we first give a brief introduction to water insecurity and discuss its conceptualization in terms of availability, access, use, and stability. We then lay out the empirical grounding for its assessment. Parallels to the food-security literature are drawn throughout, both because the concepts are analogous and food security is familiar to the nutrition community. Specifically, we review the evolution of scales to measure water and food security and compare select characteristics. We then review the burgeoning evidence for the causes and consequences of water insecurity and conclude with 4 recommendations: 1) collect more water-insecurity data (i.e., on prevalence, causes, consequences, and intervention impacts); 2) collect better data on water insecurity (i.e., measure it concurrently with food security and other nutritional indicators, measure intrahousehold variation, and establish baseline indicators of both water and nutrition before interventions are implemented); 3) consider food and water issues jointly in policy and practice (e.g., establish linkages and possibilities for joint interventions, recognize the environmental footprint of nutritional guidelines, strengthen the nutrition sensitivity of water-management practices, and use experience-based scales for improving governance and regulation across food and water systems); and 4) make findings easily available so that they can be used by the media, community organizations, and other scientists for advocacy and in governance (e.g., tracking progress towards development goals and holding implementers accountable). As recognition of the importance of water security grows, we hope that so too will the prioritization of water in nutrition research, funding, and policy.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationYoung, S. L.; Frongillo, E. A.; Jamaluddine, Z.; Melgar-Quiñonez, H.; Pérez–Escamilla, R.; Ringler, C.; Rosinger, A. Y. 2021. Perspective: The importance of water security for ensuring food security, good nutrition, and well-being. Advances in Nutrition 12(4): 1058–1073. https://doi.org/10.1093/advances/nmab003en
dcterms.extent1058-1073en
dcterms.issued2021-07
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-NC-4.0
dcterms.publisherElsevieren
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/107267en
dcterms.relationhttps://doi.org/10.4324/9781351747622en
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll5/id/7644en
dcterms.subjectexperience-baseden
dcterms.subjectdataen
dcterms.subjectwater securityen
dcterms.subjectpoliciesen
dcterms.subjecthouseholdsen
dcterms.subjectindividualsen
dcterms.subjectindicatorsen
dcterms.subjectnutritionen
dcterms.subjectwellbeingen
dcterms.subjectfood securityen
dcterms.subjectfood insecurityen
dcterms.subjectfood scienceen
dcterms.subjectgovernanceen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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