Sustainable Water Use, Food Security and Transformative Climate Policy: Interdisciplinary and Comparative Perspectives from Chile, Sweden and Beyond

Research Theme Summary

This Research Theme aimed at producing innovative knowledge for sustainable water use and food security in the context of climate action in Chile and Sweden. The Research Theme addressed the challenges of transformative climate policy in a comparative and interdisciplinary way, bringing also empirical insights from cases in other countries of the EU and Latin America. The Research Theme addressed the urgent need to better understand how water security and food security interplay with climate change politics in Chile and Sweden and we analyzed the prospects and barriers to transformative climate policy in both settings.

PIs

 

Cristian Alarcon Ferrari, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Massimiliano Farris, Universidad de Chile

 

Participants

 

Francisca Echeverria, P. Universidad Católica

Christian Antileo, Universidad de La Frontera

Dilier Olivera, Universidad de O’Higgins

 
 

Jeanne Fernandez, Uppsala University

Johanna Bergman Lodin, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Joseph Hahirwabasenga, Lund University

 
 

Lennart Martensson, Kristianstad University

Alessandra Corrado, University of Calabria

Valentina Cisterna Roa, Universidad de Concepción

Andres Palacio, Lund University

Fainaz Inamdeen, Lund University

Jing Li, Lund University

 
 

Anna Treydte, Stockholm University

Margarita Cuadra, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

Montserrat Lopez Jerez, Lund University

 

Results

The Research Theme identified knowledge gaps in relation to water security and food security, and also barriers and enablers of transformative climate policy. We concluded that definitions of water security and food security need to address and understand questions of scales, territories and landscapes. We advanced a vision of transformative climate policy that is inclusive, effective, and addresses problems of policy coordination to face climate change.

For this, we concluded that it is key to address:
• Differences and connections between security and sovereignty;
• Problems of coordination at the policy level;
• Methodological gaps to comparatively address water and food security in relation to climate change policy.
The Research Theme also offered PhD candidates a space for dialogue and reflection beyond the Chilean and Swedish contexts. This enriched methodological and epistemological approaches for the future research of the PhD candidates who participated in the workshop.