Managing Water and Agroecosystems for Food Security

Eline Boelee is a specialist on the linkages between water, health and ecosystems. After completing a MSC in irrigation engineering in 1992, she did her PhD research on environmental control of schistosomiasis in a large irrigation system in Morocco. She joined the International Water Management Institute in 1999 and worked as interdisciplinary researcher, managing international multi-disciplinary projects and building capacity on better planning and management of agricultural water resources to enhance health and environmental sustainability, considering issues such as multiple use water services, water storage, health impacts of water resources development, ecosystem services in agroecological landscapes, and ecology and environmental control of water-related diseases. Dr. Boelee has working experience in Sri Lanka, Ethiopa and Morocco, as well as in Burkina Faso, Kenya, Mozambique, Uganda, Azerbaijan, Pakistan, Senegal, Egypt, Portugal and Cote d'Ivoire. In 2012 she started her own company Water Health, based in the Netherlands.

• 1: Introduction 2: Drivers and Challenges for Food Security 3: Water-related Ecosystem Services and Food Security 4: Challenges to Agroecosystem Management 5: Water Use in Agroecosystems 6: Drylands 7: Wetlands 8: Increasing Water Productivity in Agriculture 9: Managing Agroecosystem Services 10: Water Management for Ecosystem Health and Food Production 11: Management of Water and Agroecosystems in Landscapes for Sustainable Food Security