Elevating the role of water resilience in food system dialogues

Matthews, Nathanial; Dalton, James; Matthews, John; Barclay, Holly; Barron, Jennie; Garrick, Dustin; Gordon, Line; Huq, Saleemul; Isman, Tom; McCornick, Peter G.; Meghji, Alqayam; Mirumachi, Naho; Moosa, S.; Mulligan, Mark; Noble, Andrew; Petryniak, Olga; Pittock, Jamie; Queiroz, Cibele; Ringler, Claudia; Smith, Mark; Turner, Caroline; Vora, Shuchi; Whiting, Louise

doi:10.1016/j.wasec.2022.100126

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“…Water footprint of food production (Mekonnen and Hoekstra, 2014;Senthil Kumar and Janet Joshiba, 2019), and blue and green water needs for agriculture (Chiarelli et al, 2020;Wang-Erlandsson et al, 2022) are large. Hence, how we design future agriculture is driven by and affects local water resources, which are limited, spatially dispersed and uncertain under climate change (Matthews et al, 2022).…”

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Place for sociohydrology in sustainable and climate-resilient agriculture: Review and ways forward

Adla,

Pande,

Vico

et al. 2023

Camb. prisms Water

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Given the increasing demand for high-quality food and protein, global food security remains a challenge, particularly in the face of global change. However, since agriculture, food and water security are inextricably linked, they need to be examined via an interdisciplinary lens. Sociohydrology was introduced from a post-positivist perspective to explore and describe the bidirectional feedbacks and dynamics between human and water systems. This review situates sociohydrology in the agricultural domain, highlighting its contributions in explaining the unintended consequences of water management interventions, addressing climate change impacts due to/on agriculture and incorporating human behaviour into the description of agricultural water systems. Sociohydrology has combined social and psychological insights with novel data sources and diverse multi-method approaches to model human behaviour. However, as agriculture and agriculturalists face global change, sociohydrology can better use concepts from resilience thinking more explicitly to identify gaps in terms of desirable properties in resilient agricultural water systems, potentially informing more holistic climate adaptation policy.

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Place for sociohydrology in sustainable and climate-resilient agriculture: Review and ways forward

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Pande,

Vico

et al. 2023

Camb. prisms Water

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“…Sixth, the GLC case counters and/or nuances the consensus that higher irrigation efficiency results in greater water depletion (Grafton et al, 2018;Matthews et al, 2022;Ward and Pulido-Velázquez, 2008). Instead, action taken within a drought (via water conservation and a marginally higher efficiency) results in less water withdrawn and depleted at any given period in the drought, as shown by the lower daily withdrawals in MCM/day given in Table F1 in the Supplementary Material (for example for the year 2020, DIW drops from 0.86 MCM/day to 0.44 MCM/day).…”

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“…These trajectories of increasing water use and competition in the face of climate variability and shocks require different kinds of analyses (Sadoff et al, 2020). Supporting these analyses and recognising rising global food and water insecurities, our paper focusses on the resilience of irrigated agriculture to periodic drought (Falkenmark et al, 2019;Matthews et al, 2022).…”

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“…(Appendix C further discusses drought resilience and the wide diversity of water technologies found in the GLC). Ward (2022) and Matthews et al (2022) warn that water conservation via increases in irrigation efficiency has the effect of amplifying water depletion which diminishes resilience. Others argue that the relationship between efficiency and resilience is dependent on a range of other variables.…”

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Irrigation area, efficiency and water storage mediate the drought resilience of irrigated agriculture in a semi-arid catchment

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Pringle

McCosh

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Science of The Total Environment

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“…But in reality, the actions of farmers to get water on a certain scale often cause chaos because farmers break dikes to get water. The existence of fraud committed by one party to another is appropriate for an institution with the power and competence customarily in Aceh to intervene (Dominici et al, 2022;Matthews et al, 2022;Sultana et al, 2023).…”

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Local and Scientific Knowledge Dialogue in Rice Farming Practice in Aceh Besar District

Ulfa,

Muljono,

Seminar

2023

IJSSR

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As government partners, it is appropriate that Keujruen blang and agricultural extension workers as facilitators of the government in the agricultural sector must have the same meaning in agricultural practice activities. It aims to achieve the mission of national development embodied into food security priorities through sustainable agricultural agitation. Collaboration between extension workers and customary institutions can create effective agricultural practices to increase the income and standard of living of farming communities. The focus of this study is to analyze the meaning of agricultural practices owned by extension workers and customary institutions in Sukamakmur Aceh Besar sub-district by understanding the role of each actor. To analyze the meaning of agricultural practices for extension workers and customary institutions, this study uses the concept of hierarchy of meaning contained in the theory of Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM). This research is presented with qualitative methods with ethnographic design. The place of research was conducted in Sukamakmur District, Aceh Besar. This research was conducted from March to September 2023 through several stages. The determination of informants is done purposively. The analysis used is Ethnograpic Content Ananlysis (ECA). Validity in this study was carried out using data triangulation. The results of the study explained that coordinating the meaning of agricultural practices between extension workers and traditional keujruen blang institutions can be assessed from the role of each actor. The coordination of the meaning of agricultural practices between keujruen blang and extension workers with CMM theory shows the similarity of the meaning of agricultural practices by extension workers and keujruen blang, namely realizing sustainable agriculture through the roles of each actor. The role of keujruen blang to realize sustainable agriculture is by maintaining customs in rice field activities, while the role of extension workers to realize sustainable agriculture is by focusing on organic farming.

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Elevating the role of water resilience in food system dialogues

Cited by 9 publications

References 53 publications

Place for sociohydrology in sustainable and climate-resilient agriculture: Review and ways forward

Place for sociohydrology in sustainable and climate-resilient agriculture: Review and ways forward

Irrigation area, efficiency and water storage mediate the drought resilience of irrigated agriculture in a semi-arid catchment

Local and Scientific Knowledge Dialogue in Rice Farming Practice in Aceh Besar District

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