Summary
Climate change is having pervasive impacts on food systems that are mediated through water. The authors of this article state that the United Nations Food Systems Summit has not sufficiently considered water's role in food system transformation. To avoid the damaging consequences of water scarcity on food systems, they propose that key food system actors undertake the following 1) Strengthen efforts to retain water-dependent ecosystems, their functions and services; 2) Improve agricultural water management; 3) Reduce water and food losses beyond the farmgate; 4) Coordinate water with nutrition and health interventions; 5) Increase the environmental sustainability of food systems; 6) Explicitly address social inequities; and 7) Improve data quality and monitoring for water-food system linkages.