《Food Policy》| 观点:衡量水的获取和利用是更有效的食物和营养政策的关键

摘要

与水有关的指标主要集中于水的供应和水的基础设施方面；获得和使用水的经验很少受到关注。然而，使用更接近人类经验的分解指标，即家庭和个人的获取和使用，对水安全进行评估，在改变我们对人类福祉的理解方面具有巨大潜力，这与粮食不安全的经验衡量方式的转变具有很大的变革性。水的获取和使用影响着经济福祉、食物安全、营养以及身心健康的许多方面，这些方面在很大程度上没有得到重视，大部分由于缺乏关于水不安全的精确、高分辨率数据。最近出现的全球水获取和使用可比较的测量方法和个人和家庭水不安全经验量表对更有效的食物和营养政策有五大影响，即目标定位、影响衡量、建模、监管设计和部门竖井。在全世界范围内应以与食物不安全基本相同的方式定期衡量水的不安全，因为水具有内在价值，塑造粮食安全和全球健康，并对实现许多其他发展目标至关重要。

关键词

水安全；水不安全；测量；家庭；个人；规模；指标

Abstract

Water-related indicators have predominantly focused on water availability and water infrastructure; experiences with water access and use have received far less attention. However, the assessment of water security using disaggregated indicators that are more proximal to the human experience, i.e., household and individual access and use, has enormous potential for transforming our understanding of human well-being, in much the same way that the shift to experiential measures of food insecurity has been transformative. Water access and use shapes many aspects of economic well-being, food security, nutrition, and physical and mental health that have largely gone unappreciated in great part due to the lack of precise, high-resolution data on water insecurity. The recent advent of globally comparable measurements of water access and use with the Individual and Household Water Insecurity Experiences Scales has five major implications for more effective food and nutrition policy, i.e., for targeting, measuring impact, modeling, regulation design, and sectoral siloing. Experiences of water insecurity should be regularly measured worldwide in much the same way that food insecurity is because water is of intrinsic value, shapes food security and global health, and is critical for achieving many other development goals.

Keywords

Water security; Water insecurity; Measurement; Household; Individual; Scale; Indicator

《Food Policy》

《粮食政策》是一份多学科期刊，最新影响因子为4.552，发表关于发展中国家、转型期国家和发达经济体食品部门政策制定、实施和评估问题的原创研究和新证据。本刊重点刊载食品政策的经济和社会方面的文章，优先考虑为国际食品政策辩论提供信息的实证研究。

原文链接 link 

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2021.102138

点击“阅读原文”可阅览文章

—  END  —