Why is Water Important to Food Security?                             

• Water is key to food security.
• Food security exists when all people at all times have both physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary requirements for an active and healthy life.
• People who have better access to water tend to have better levels of nourishment.
• Lack of water can be a major cause of famine and malnutrition.
• Drought is the most common cause of severe food shortages in developing countries.
• The human right to food depends heavily on access to natural resources, including water.
• Large quantities of water are needed to produce food.
• Climate change increases risks of extremes of water availability.
• The gender gap in agriculture limits yields; women have unequal access to services and resource inputs.
• Water resources are scarce.
• The competition for water is increasing.
• Land and water resources are degraded.

- UN World Water Day 2012
- Agriculture: San Diego's Working Water

Water Security for Food Security: Solutions

• Produce more with less water: sustainable intensification.
• Prepare for climate change and natural disasters.
• Protect water resources.
• Practice conservation agriculture.
• Promote use of forests to capture and regulate water. Forests reduce the effects of floods and droughts and prevent soil erosion, landslides, desertification and salinization.
• Re-use and recycle water.
• Cut food waste and losses.
• Improve the integration of different production systems.
• Opt for sustainable and healthy diets.

Library and Campus Resources

• Water Resources Center Archives, WRCA, UCR Libraries
• Water Science and Policy Center, WSPC
• UCR Office of Sustainability
• Research on water conservation techniques and genetics of crops
• Use of recycled wastewater and marginal (saline) water

Library Resources, Water and Food Security:

	The atlas of climate change : mapping the world's greatest challenge / Kirstin Dow and Thomas E. Downing Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006 Map Library (map): QC981.8.C5 D69 2006
	Blue gold [videorecording] : world water wars / a Purple Turtle Films production ; a film by Sam Bozzo. [United States] : Distributed by PBS Home Video, c2009 Media Library DVD 3684, HD1691
	The bubble is close to bursting : a forecast of the main economic and geopolitical water issues likely to arise in the world during the next two decades / World Economic Forum New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003 G961 P9-1 Web Resource
	Climate change and water technical paper of the  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change / edited by Bryson Bates, Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz, Shaohong Wu, Jean Palutikof Geneva, Switzerland : Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,2008 WRCA UCR Internet
	Climate change in the Federated States of Micronesia : food and water security, climate risk management, and adaptive strategies: report of findings 2010/ By Charles H. Fletcher1 and Bruce M. Richmond Honolulu, HI : University of Hawai'i Sea Grant College Program, 2010 WRCA G898 Q Web Resource
	Closing the loop : ecological sanitation for food security / Steven A. Esrey...[et al.] Stockholm : Swedish international development cooperation agency (Sida). Department for natural resources and the environment, 2001 WRCA UCR 40.3 P1-2
	Convenient solutions to an inconvenient truth : ecosystem-based approaches to climate change Washington, DC : World Bank, c2010 World Bank e-library online monographs QC903
	Crop ecology : productivity and management in agricultural systems / David J. Connor, Robert S. Loomis, Kenneth G. Cassman Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2011 S589.7
	Dividing the waters : food security, ecosystem health, and the new politics of scarcity / Sandra Postel Washington, D.C. : Worldwatch Institute, c1996 TD345 .P6697 1996
	Domestic food security and increasing competition for water / by E. Phillip LeVeen Berkely, Calif. : [s.n.], 1983 WRCA UCR 70.3 M3
	Environment, water resources and agricultural policies : lessons from China and OECD countries Paris : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2006 S589.76.C6
	Experiences and opportunities for promoting small-scale/micro irrigation and rainwater harvesting for food security in Ethiopia / S. B. Awulachew ... [et al.]. Colombo, Sri Lanka : International Water Management Institute, 2005 G785 P5 Web Resource
	Facing global environmental change : environmental, human, energy, food, health and water security concepts / Hans Günter Brauch ... [et al.] Berlin : Springer, c2009 GE149
	Fault lines in China's economic terrain / Charles Wolf, Jr. ... [et al.] Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2003 Rivera HC427.95 .F37 2003
	Flow [videorecording] : for love of water / a Steven Starr production ; in association with the Group Entertainment ; directed by Irena Salina. [New York, N.Y.] : Oscilloscope Pictures, c2008. WRCA UCR Sci Circ. DVD 41 P8 DVD
	Food security in the United States / edited by Lawrence Busch and William B. Lacy Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1984 HD1761 .F596 1984
	From resource scarcity to ecological security : exploring new limits to growth / edited by Dennis Pirages and Ken Cousins Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2005 HC79.E5 F76 2005
	Global change : impacts on water and food security / Claudia Ringler, Asit K. Biswas, Sarah A. Cline (Eds.) Berlin ; Heidelberg : Springer-Verlag, c2010, Catalog record.
	Globalization, water & health : resource management in times of scarcity / edited by Linda Whiteford and Scott Whiteford Santa Fe : School of American Research Press ; Oxford : James Currey, 2005 RA591 .G57 2005
	Greywater Use in the Middle East : Technical, Social, Economic and Policy Issues Ottawa : International Development Research Centre, 2010 Catalog record
	Human security and the environment : international comparisons / edited by Edward A. Page, Michael Redclift Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, c2002 GE170 .H88 2002
	Innovative approaches to agricultural water use for improving food security in Sub-Saharan Africa / A. Inocencio, H. Sally and D. J. Merrey Colombo, Sri Lanka : International Water Management Institute, c2003 WRCA UCR G750 P3-1
	Institutions, impact synergies and food security : a methodology with results from the Kala Oya Basin, Sri Lanka / Rathinasamy Maria Saleth ... [et al.] Colombo, Sri Lanka : International Water Management Institute, 2007 G847 N7 Web Resource
	Integrated land and water management for food and environmental security / F. W. T. Penning de Vries ... [et al.] Colombo, Sri Lanka : International Water Management Institute, 2004 WRCA UCR 41.1 P4-1 Web Resource
	Integrated watershed management in the global ecosystem / edited by Rattan Lal Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, c2000 TC409
	Liquid assets : the critical need to safeguard freshwater ecosystems / Sandra Postel ; Lisa Mastny, editor Washington, D.C. : Worldwatch Institute, c2005 QH541.5.F7 P85 2005
	Living with the earth : concepts in environmental health science / Gary S. Moore Boca Raton, Fla. : Lewis Publishers, c1999 RA565
	NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Socio-Economic Stability and Water Productivity : Food and Water Security in Central Asia (2008 : Tashkent, Uzbekistan) Dordrecht : Springer, c2011 Catalog record
	Plan B 3.0 : mobilizing to save civilization / Lester R. Brown New York : W. W. Norton, c2008 HC79.E5 B7595 2008
	Population puzzle : boom or bust? / edited by Laura E. Huggins and Hanna Skandera Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, c2004 Rivera HB871 .P6695 2004
	Proceedings of the National Conference on Water, Food Security and Climate Change in Sri Lanka, BMICH, Colombo, June 9-11, 2009 : water quality, environment and climate change / Alexandra Evans and K. Jinapala, editors Colombo, Sri Lanka : International Water Management Institute, 2010 Volume 1; Catalog record Volume 2; Catalog record Volume 3; Catalog record
	Prospects for productive use of saline water in West Asia and North Africa / John Stenhouse and Jacob W. Kijne Colombo, Sri Lanka : International Water Management Institute, 2006 WRCA UCR 77 P6 Web Resource
	Remote sensing of global croplands for food security / edited by Prasad S. Thenkabail ... [et al.] Boca Raton : CRC Press, c2009 Catalog record.
	Smallholder system innovations in integrated watershed management (SSI) : strategies of water for food and environmental security in drought-prone tropical and subtropical agro-ecosystems / Yogesh Bhatt ... [et al.] Colombo, Sri Lanka : International Water Management Institute, 2006 WRCA UCR G750 P6-2 Web Resource
	Sustainability in food and water : an asian perspective / Kensuke Fukushi... [et al.], editors Dordrecht ; New York : Springer, c2010, Catalog record
	Tapped [videorecording] / Atlas Films presents ; a film by Stephanie Soechtig ; produced by Stephanie Soechtig and Sarah Gibson ; co-directed by Jason Lindsey ; directed by Stephanie Soechtig. [New York] : Disinformation Co., [2010] Media Library DVD 4018, HD9349.M542
	Thicker than water : the political ecology of a new irrigation system in Totora, Bolivia / by Carrie Anne Furman 2008 F2230.2.K4
	Threats to food and water chain infrastructure / edited by Virginia Koukouliou, Magdalena Ujevic, Otto Premstaller Dordrecht ; London : Springer, c2010 HV6433.5
	Water and poverty : the themes : a collection of thematic papers [Manila?] : Asian Development Bank, 2004 WRCA UCR 70.3 W-2 no.4
	Water for food in a changing world / edited by Alberto Garrido and Helen Ingram London : Routledge, 2011, Catalog record
	Water productivity in rainfed agriculture : redrawing the rainbow of water to achieve food security in rainfed smallholder systems / by Hodson Makurira Leiden : CRC Press, 2010, Catalog record
	World food security : a history since 1945 / D. John Shaw Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 Rivera HD9000.5 .S425 2007
	Water security : the water-food-energy-climate nexus : the World Economic Forum water initiative / [edited by Dominic Waughray] Washington, D.C. : Island Press, c2011 HD1691

This exhibit was created on March 13, 2012 and  designed by Margaret Hogarth and Linda Vida.


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