Dear Sirs:
Thank you for the opportunity to contribute some observations on the V0 draft.
1)Frames of reference for the identified food-water nexus variables : The high level frame for the food-water intersection variables remain in the background through out the draft. For e.g.
At the Agri-food Systems level : The key water -food nexus variables can be water demand-supply, water trade, water governance/reforms, water infrastructure investments, water technologies investments..
At the Health-Disease Systems level : The key water -food nexus variables can be water quality.
Similarly at the Environmental Systems level - Climate change and Environmental flows and at the Socio-Economic Systems level : water rights, cultural norms/preferences, water use and water pricing.
Clearly a systems level perspective bringing out the key water-food nexus variables under each of the system headers may prove beneficial to not only identify intra-variable and systems level dynamics but also help clarify the granularity of the recommendations.
2)Missing food-water nexus variables : Water infrastructure and technology investments, cultural norms/preferences are two important food-water nexus variables that remain to be addressed in the draft.
3) Comprehensive Food-Nutrition Security Index : An approach of drawing up a comprehensive food-nutrition security index and linking evidence /patterns of the key food-water nexus variables with such an index may prove beneficial to systematically gather and synthesize the current on-going integrated assessment models , projects and outputs from across the word.
4)Scenarios based approach to Recommendations:The dynamics of various external pressures in the form of migration - urbanization - population growth - economic development devised into possible scenarios , mapping the food-water nexus variables to the FSN index against such scenarios may prove valuable to draw up comprehensive recommendations at various levels - global, regional, national or sub national level. Such granularity of recommendations can also further help in mobilizing , enabling and catalyzing concrete actions from various stakeholders.
5)Cross cutting themes identification and discussion : Key cross cutting themes in gender, research /development/ innovation, knowledge management, measurement and evaluation , development indicators access may need to be comprehensively inventoried and discussed in a separate section in order that several more stakeholder perspectives can enrich the discussion, recommendations and ensuing actions.
We hope the observations prove useful in further refining the draft.
Sincerely
Suman,
Managing Trustee , CPPCIF
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