The water we eat : combining virtual water and water footprints
Marta Antonelli (Editor), Francesca Greco (Editor)
This book pursues a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach in order to analyze the relationship between water and food security. It demonstrates that most of the world?s economies lack sufficient water resources to secure their populations? food requirements and are thus virtual importers of water. One of the most inspiring cases, which this book is rooted in, is Italy: the third largest net virtual water importer on earth. The book also shows that the sustainability of water depends on the extent to which societies recognize and take into account its value and contribution to agricultural production. Due to the large volumes of water required for food production, water and food security are in fact inextricably linked. Contributions from leading international experts and scholars in the field use the concepts of virtual water and water footprints to explain this relationship, with an eye to the empirical examples of wine, tomato and pasta production in Italy. This book provides a valuable resource for all researchers, professionals, policymakers and everyone else interested in water and food security
Springer eBooks
1 online resource (x, 256 pages)
9783319163932, 9783319163925, 3319163930, 3319163922
907289298
Introduction
Not all water drops are equal
Water and food security: food-water and food supply value chains
The Water Footprint: linking human consumption and water use
The impact of food on our lives
Water sustainability and 0 km: Slow Food
Virtual water: the water we eat, buy and waste
Water labelling
Virtual water: an anthropological perspective
Moral economy and virtual water: Italian activism for water as a public good
Food globalization and water geography: where does Italy stand?
Virtual water 'trade' in the Mediterranean area
Overcoming water scarcity through economics: irrigation and drought
From the Barilla Centre for Food and Nutrition's Double pyramid to virtual water in the pasta trade
The water footprint of wine
Water footprint and environmental sustainability of typical Italian food products
Water footprint of tomatoes
English