• Natural Capital Accounting for Water Resources / Matthew Agarwala, Michael Brock
• Water Service Requirements for Agriculture: Nature, Nurture and Negotiation / Carl Hausmann
• Dietary Patterns that Value People and the Planet / Joanne Burke
• Incentive Programs to Address the Challenges of Hunger, Undernutrition, and Obesity in the United States / Gus Schumacher, Emily Nink
• The Potential Impact of Improved Water Management to Alleviate Water Scarcity and Hunger: A Global Perspective / Dieter Gerten, Jonas Jägermeyr
• Water and Food in the American West: Lessons from Recent Droughts in California / Josué Medellín-Azuara, Jay Lund, Daniel A. Sumner
• Water in Australian Agriculture / James Horne
• Circumventing Water Scarcity in the Jordan Basin: Decoupling Trends in Israel and Jordan / Michael Gilmont, Lara Nassar, Erica Harper, Nadav Tal, Steve Rayner
• Water Issues and the Brazilian Agricultural Agenda / Vanessa Lucena Empinotti
• Will Irrigation Technology, Pricing, or Quotas Ensure Sustainable Water Use? / Chris Perry
• Food and Water Management in the Mediterranean Basin / Michel Petit, Phillipe Le Grusse
• Food and Water Security in North America's Transboundary Sonoran Desert: a Water Exporting Dryland / America Lutz Ley, Ryan Lee, Yulia Peralta, Christopher Scott
• Food and Water Management in Southern Africa / Peter Johnston, Arthur Chapman
• Managing Water for Food and Agricultural Transformation in Africa: Key Issues and Priorities / Timothy O. Williams
• Food and Water Management in Northwest Africa / Mustapha Besbes, Jamel Chahed, Abdelkader Hamdane
• Food and Water Security in West Asia / Eckart Woertz
• Valuing Water in Food Systems and Beyond / Alexis J. Morgan, Stuart Orr, Nathanial Matthews
• Global Wheat Value Chains / Ghada Ahmed
• Water for Coffee / John Schluter
• Water and Rice Production: Looking to the Future / Phil Riddell, Biksham Gujja
• Oil Palm Value Chain Management / Denis Murphy
• The Variable Rate Irrigation Management Challenge / James Lowenberg-DeBoer
• The Water Infrastructure Crisis / Phil Riddell
• Valuing Water in Supply Chains / Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Christian A. Vousvouras, Samuel Vionnet
• Disruptive Food Supply Chains: Bringing it all Back Home / Tony Beck
• Green Water and Food Security / Garrison Sposito
• The Role of New and Green Water Resources in Localizing Water and Food Security Under Arid and Semi-Arid Conditions / Rabi Mohtar, Amjad Assi
• Farmer-led Water User Associations in Agricultural Water Management / Rami Zurayk, Azza Dirar
• Understanding Pesticides in England and Wales: Pathways, Policies, and Pollution Prevention / Frances C. Elwell, Nikolaus J. Clemenz, Nicola J. Nineham
• Societal Drivers of Food and Water Systems 1: Material Flows, Household Consumption Styles, and Contending Schools of Engineering Thought / Michael Thompson, M. Bruce Beck, Dipak Gyawali
• Successes and Problems with Measuring Water Consumption in Beef Systems / Mieghan Bruce, Camille Bellet, Jonathan Rushton
• Food, Water and Society: An Analytical Framework / Brendan Bromwich, Tony Allan, Anthony Colman, Martin Keulertz
• The Feminization of Agriculture: Evidence and Implications for Food and Water Security / Vanya Slavchevska, Susan Kaaria, Sanna Liisa Taivalmaa
• Modelling Agricultural Controls for Flooding and Soil Erosion / Roger Moussa, Bruno Cheviron
• Food, Water and the Consequences of Society not Valuing the Environment / Tony Allan
• The Global Uptake of Conservation Agriculture and the Impact on Water-related Ecosystem Services / Amir Kassam, David Coates
• Subsidies and the Environment: Impacts of WTO Agricultural Support Disciplines / Ulla Kask
• Integrating Multi-Capital Thinking into Business Decisions / Jyoti Banerjee
• Water Management by Farmers / Laurence Smith
• Societal Drivers of Food and Water Systems 2: Applying Plural Rationality to Some Wicked Problems / M. Bruce Beck, Dipak Gyawali, Michael Thompson
• Gender, Poverty and Politics Along the Real-virtual Water Spectrum / Floriane Clement, Alan Nicol
• Cape Town's Contested Hierarchy of Demand for Agricultural and Municipal Water in a Rainfed Economy 2017-18 / Anthony Colman
• Lab-Grown Meat: Can it Change the World? / Martin Keulertz
• Green Water Used By Plants And Managed By Farmers: Measurement, Accounting, Policy / David Leslie Dent
• A Farmer's Experience of Conservation Agriculture in the UK / Anthony J. Reynolds
• Global Food Trade and Local Water Resources: Can We Bridge the Regulatory Gap? / Arjen Hoekstra

Society's greatest use of water is in food production; a fact that puts farmers centre stage in global environmental management. Current management of food value chains, however, is not well set up to enable farmers to undertake their dual role of feeding a growing population and stewarding natural resources. The book considers the interconnected issues of real water in the environment and "virtual water" in food value chains and investigates how society influences both fields. This perspective draws out considerable challenges for food security and for environmental stewardship in the context of ongoing global change. The book discusses these issues by region and with global overviews of selected commodities. Innovation relevant to the kind of change needed for the current food system to meet future challenges is reviewed in light of the findings of the regional and thematic analysis