Rethinking the approach to groundwater and food security /

2. THE i iNKS BETWEE GROUNDWATER AND FOOD SECURITY 5
Resource availability and production 7
Entitlements and food security 10
Environmental data and environmental myth 13
3. UNDE,RsANDING THE DYNAMICS OF GROUNDWATER RESOI RCES 17
Nature and limitations of available data 17
Groundwater in China 19
Problems in accessing groundwater data 19
Implications for food security 23
The viability of groundwater management 24
Groundwater monitoring in India 25
Analytical methods and the role of groundwater data in development finance 26
Recharge estimation 27
Abstraction estimation 28
Methodological improvements 28
Data collection and quality 29
Variability 30
Water-level fluctuations 31
Implications 33
Evaluation summary 34
Conclusions on groundwater data and analysis 35
4. IMPmICArTONS 37
Implications for the analysis of food security 37
Widening the Malthusian perspective 38
IThe standard management paradigm 39
"Clumsy' approaches 39
The significance of adaptive approaches in groundwater management 40
Implications for groundwater management 43
5. RECOMMENDATIONS 45
Rethinking the approach to groundwater management 46
Basic research 46
Groundwater monitoring and data collection, dissemination and access 47
Integrated management in strategic locations 47
Laying the foundations for management in complex locations 47
Disseminating global lessons 48