VWI is contributing to better decisions impacting water in the food system, as enshrined in the five Valuing Water Principles. VWI explores the ways water is valued in food systems to better understand, value and manage water.
Aim
VWI works to shift the food sector water use practices to be more sustainable and employ the valuing water principles when setting water use and management plans and policies.
Expected activities
Subject to consultation with relevant stakeholders, possible activities may include:
• Facilitating dialogue between actors at each stage of a relevant food value chain, including producers, importers, retailers and consumers to collectively address unsustainable water impacts.
• Raising the profile of water and its multiple values within national action plans on food and agriculture, in collaboration with leading food policy actors such as the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the World Food Program (WFP).
• Actions that emerge from the food and water dialogues that are ongoing as part of the follow-up to the UN water conference 2023.
