Water for Food in a Changing World

Alberto Garrido is Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the Technical University of Madrid, Spain. He is the Director of the Research Centre for the Management of Agricultural and Environmental Risks, a research centre of the Technical University of Madrid, and serves in the Advisory Committee of the Rosenberg International Forum of Water Policy.Helen Ingram is a Professor Emerita at the University of California, USA, and a research fellow at the Southwest Center at the University of Arizona, USA. She is also a member of the Advisory Committee of the Rosenberg International Water Forum.

• Preface Part 1: Introduction 1. Water for Food in a Changing World Part 2: Innovations in Agricultural Response to Sustainability Challenge 2. Optimising Water Productivity in Food Production 3. Modern Agricultural under Stress: Lessons from the Murray Darling in Australia 4. Integrated Watershed Management 5. Lessons from Spain: a Critical of Assessment of the Role of Science and Society Part 3: Counting the drops and the mouths to feed: Food Production and Trade 6. Integrating Agricultural Water Use with the Global Water Budget 7. Globalisation of Water through Virtual Water Trade Part 4: Water for the environment 8. Balancing Water for people and nature 9. Optimising Water for Life Part 5: Revitalized Water Governance 10. Water Science and Policy in a Changing World: Implications of Non-Stationary Hydrology, Ecolomics and Politics 11. Promises Under Construction: The Evolving Paradigm for Water Governance and the Case of Northern Mexico 12. Beyond Universal Remedies for Good Water Governance: A Political and Contextual Approach 13. Water Policies in Spain: Balancing Water for Food and Water for Nature Part 6: Conclusions 14. Can the World Feed itself Sustainably?

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