Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum)

Re: Water and food security - E-consultation to set the track of the study

Hannah Schellander

Defra

Dear Vincent/HLPE Secretariat,

Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the scope of the HLPE’s Water and Food Security report.

We have a couple of comments.  It may be useful for the report to:

  • assess the losses from and impacts of floods and droughts given immediate costs (loss of life, livelihoods) and long-term economic costs (re-building infrastructure, reduced GDP, impact on global food prices), and identify the most effective ways of improving resilience.
  • investigate the impacts of shifting agricultural production (or certain aspects of it) from rain-fed to irrigated and the impacts of this on food production/productivity and wider environmental pressures (e.g. land degradation through salinisation and over extraction).

Thanks and regards,

Hannah