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| Title | Water for Food Water for Life, are we getting somewhere or are we getting nowhere? |
| Group | Water Resources Management group |
| Project type | thesis |
| Credits | 36 |
| Supervisor(s) | Chris Seijger |
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| Contact info | chris.seijger@wur.nl |
| Begin date | 2021/01/01 |
| End date | 2022/01/31 |
| Description | Host institute(s): WUR, possibly IWMI
Country: Global assessment Period: flexible Project type: topic for bachelor or master thesis, or Research Practice (WRM 79342) at WRM group. Preferably, 3-4 students work in a group (to overcome social isolation), with each student focuses on different topics. The Comprehensive Assessment (CA) of Water Management in Agriculture was published in 2007. It outlined one of the major challenges for agricultural water management: to produce in 2050 double amount of food, with a global fixed amount of fresh water resources. The CA has based its analyses on a multi-year research program involving 700 researchers. It can thus be considered as “the best look at future food-water production and consumption trends”. In this thesis, you can assess together with fellow students, how the world of today is performing in the light of the CA projections. 2020 lies nicely in-between 2000 (baseyear) and 2050 (scenario year). Has the world made gains in area expansions, yield increases and crop water consumption? Analyses could cover land use, food production, trade, water use, and should cover different continents and the global scale. The CA contains quite a number of trends that can be assessed for the 2000, 2020, 2050 (see Chapt 3). The figure (next page) is key; to what extent are we switching from todays land and water use to desired 2050 land and water use? An environmental scenario is apparently missing (so is a scenario on dietary change) but could also be constructed and assessed. More info: CA is available online at https://www.ircwash.org/resources/water-food-water-life-comprehensive-assessment-water-management-agriculture |
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