GECAFS IGB Basin Focal Project Grant Meeting-1

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GECAFS IGB Basin Focal Project Grant Meeting-1

• Kathmandu, Nepal
• 13-15 December 2005

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Summary of Day 1

• Review of sites selected
• List of standard variables
• Presentation of preliminary food system
  characterizations
• Discussion of key activities and determinants (in
  site break-out groups)

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Issues from Day 1

• Confusing food system activities and food system
  outcomes
• Activities contribute to the outcomes
• Consider them separately an additional matrix,
  not the same
• Differences regarding the appropriate
  determinants of food security
• We can revisit on day 3, but we are still
  learning about the systems

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Day 1 issues, cont.

• Food system outcome and activity determinants
  need better justification. This should be the
  focus of midterm reports.
• How do you know that these are the key
  determinants?
• Your literature review should support this
• Matrix of standard variables good.

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Global Environmental Change

• Examples of human activities leading to GEC

Agricultural intensification Freshwater
extraction Fisheries overexploitation Waste
production
Deforestation Fossil fuel consumption
Urbanisation Land reclamation
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Global Environmental Change Changes in the
biogeophysical environment caused or strongly
influenced by human activities
For example changes in
Land cover soils Atmospheric composition
Climate variability means Water availability
quality
Nitrogen availability cycling Biodiversity Sea
currents salinity Sea level
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Site presentations

• What are the water-related stresses the food
  system in your site currently faces?
• At what scale do they operate?