Ensuring water and food security for our growing world is an audacious goal – exactly what Bob Daugherty sought to achieve by creating the Daugherty Water for Food Global Institute (DWFI) at the University of Nebraska nearly 10 years ago. He, along with leaders and supporters within the University of Nebraska, the state and well beyond, understood that a collective and committed effort on wise water management was essential to producing enough food to feed the world while sustaining our valuable and limited water resources.
For decades, many dedicated people around the world have striven to overcome the challenges of ensuring water and food security. There isn’t a “silver bullet” that will quickly address the complex, interconnected and evolving issues, including climate change, rising demand for more water-intensive foods, soil and water degradation, conflict over and competition for water resources, and, in many developing countries, the low levels of investment in supporting facilities and services.
In collaboration with our dedicated partners, DWFI is making valuable contributions to meeting these challenges. As you’ll read in this year’s annual report, the institute is conducting innovative research, informing policy, convening stakeholders, sharing knowledge, cultivating new leaders and communicating our work to millions of stakeholders across the U.S. and around the world. Most importantly, our work is advancing our mission to ensure food and water security for nearly 10 billion people by 2050.
Research and Innovation
- Improving water productivity
- Flux network making waves
- Developing composite drought index and other drought management tools in India
- Partnerships advancing hardware, software solutions
- Researching irrigation in Rwanda
- Writing new irrigation prescriptions
- Bringing drought monitoring and early warning systems to the MENA Region
- It pays to follow the rules
Policy and Partnerships
- From scarcity to security
- Supporting irrigation methods for smallholders
- Report sheds light on complexities, benefits and challenges of agricultural water transfer rights in the Western U.S.
- Researchers verify ways to preserve Ogallala Aquifer waters
- Implementing nitrate solutions: Bazile Groundwater Management Area
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