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Global Change: Impacts on Water and food Security (Hardcover, 2010 Ed.)
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Global Change: Impacts on Water and food Security (Hardcover, 2010 Ed.)
Series: Water Resources Development and Management
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In recent years, a greater level of integration of the world
economy and an opening of national markets to trade has impacted
virtually all areas of society. The process of globalization has
the potential to generate long-term benefits for developing
countries, including enhanced technology and knowledge transfers
and new fina- ing options supporting agricultural and economic
development. However, risks of political and economic instability,
increased inequality, and losses in agricultural income and
production for countries that subsidize their agricultural and
other e- nomic sectors threaten to offset potential benefits.
Globalization can also have a profound impact on the water sector -
in terms of allocation and use of water - and thus on food security
as well. Other global change processes, particularly climate
change, are also likely to have far-reaching impacts on water and
food security, and societies around the world. To discuss these
issues in-depth, the International Food Policy Research Institute,
the Third World Centre for Water Management, Mexico, and the
Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE),
Costa Rica, held a three-day International Conference on
"Globalization and Trade: Implications for Water and Food
Security," at CATIE's Turrialba, Costa Rica, headquarters under the
auspices of the CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food in 2005.
The workshop set out to identify the major risks and emerging
issues facing developing countries related to global economic and
environmental change impacts on water and food security.
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