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World Water Day 2012 - 22nd March : Water and Food Security
This year on the water day....
There are 7 billion people to feed on the planet today and another 2 billion are expected to join by 2050. Statistics say that each of us drinks from 2 to 4 litres of water every day, however most of the water we ‘drink’ is embedded in the food we eat: producing 1 kilo of beef for example consumes 15,000 litres of water while 1 kilo of wheat ’drinks up’ 1,500 litres.
When a billion people in the world already live in chronic hunger and water resources are under pressure we cannot pretend the problem is ‘elsewhere’. Coping with population growth and ensuring access to nutritious food to everyone call for a series of actions we can all help with:
- follow a healthier, sustainable diet;
- consume less water-intensive products;
- reduce the scandalous food wastage: 30% of the food produced worldwide is never eaten and the water used to produce it is definitively lost!
- produce more food, of better quality, with
less water.
At all steps of the supply chain, from producers to consumers, actions can be taken to save water and ensure food for all.
And you? Do you know how much water you actually consume every day? How can you change your diet and reduce your water footprint? Join the World Water Day 2012 campaign “Water and Food Security” and find out more!
http://www.unwater.org/worldwaterday/index.html
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The Humboldt Current supports one of the world’s most productive LMEs, representing approximately 18-20% of the global fish catch and hosting globally significant biodiversity which has led to its designation as a WWF Global 200. High environmental variability in the HCLME has significant impacts on ecosystem productivity and trophic structure. In addition, a range of anthropogenic activities are exerting pressure on this unique ecosystem.
In order to provide for long-term ecosystem resilience, the two countries propose to advance towards ecosystem-based management of HCLME by:
- Formulating a strategic long-term planning framework for the identification and prioritization of actions needed to preserve and maintain HCLME ecosystem benefits and services through endorsement of a SAP that includes a plan for a system of MPAs of the HCLME.
- Implementation of a number of in-situ interventions (pilots) that validate differentiated management approaches and targeted responses.
- Priority interventions for effective multi-disciplinary management of the HCLME delivered by developing coordinated fisheries management collaboration experiences, specific MPA management tools and legislation, and common MPA management strategies for up-scaling lessons from the pilots.
- Link the strategic instruments developed under Outcome 1 and the tools for upscaling and advancing the priority interventions under Outcome 3 by strengthening capacities for implementing the strategic planning frameworks by both public and private sectors, including through advancement of market-based mechanisms.
The executing agencies will be IFOP and IMARPE, in Chile and Peru, respectively.
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