Water Food Linkages: Some Insights

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Water Food Linkages Some Insights
Nepal Water Conservation Foundation 2005
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Preliminary Scenario

• Small area high variability, complexity and
  undergoing transformation (water regime,
  production, market, community, employment,
  migration, and tourism) complete understanding an
  unachievable goal
• Data on food systems scanty (regional level data
  exists)
• Disjuncture between regional and local levels
  data
• Seasonal water Scarcity and degradation
• Pollution
• Arsenic is an emerging threat impact on food
  systems ??
• Present situation of conflict?

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Three styles of organizing play direct roles in
food systems-water linkages

• Governmental organizations that are generally
  structured on sectoral lines and play major
  regulatory, service delivery/operational or data
  collection and scientific roles
• User or community-based organizations developed
  to meet specific needs demanded by the user
  community from which they emerged, e. g. forest
  users groups, irrigation groups.
• Market institutions
• Social Auditors and civic movement

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