This introduction sets the scene for special issue compiled by Martin Keulertz, Eckart Woertz and Tony Allan.

Abstract The recent global food crises have highlighted how the agro-food system tends to be subject powerful agribusiness players, with thus far unidentified consequences for water security. By connecting hydro-hegemony and virtual concepts, this study illustrates Western dominance over embedded in international commodity trade flows. Accordingly, foreign direct investment land by emerging Asian Arab economies their increased competition sources of supply chains appear as strategies...

The Water–Energy–Food (WEF) nexus is a development challenge in the Arab world, particularly ‘core countries’ with low to mid-incomes which limited water endowments permit agricultural production, such as Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Lebanon, Algeria, Sudan and Jordan. WEF often conceptualized mere technocratic terms, yet politics matter implementation of projects that address it. Internalizing hydrological externalities or leaving them they are financing public good requires states whose...

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"Water for food security and well-being in Latin America the Caribbean: social environmental implications a globalized economy." International Journal of Water Resources Development, 30(4), pp. 745–746

Ukraine is an untapped asset. It presents opportunities both nationally and for Europe as engine of foreign policy in a century troubled by climate change resources scarcity. Its 32 million ha arable could easily become 40 which would add 25% new cropland to the European Union – from 160 200 making world's largest agricultural producer. And 65% Chernozem: best soil world crops that are crucial water-short economies Africa, Middle East Asia and, moreover, mainstay global corporate food...

Since the global food crisis of 2008 states have encouraged international agro-investments by their respective private sectors or undertaken them directly via state-owned companies and sovereign wealth funds. This chapter analyses crucial role played national governments with help three case studies: Gulf countries, China, potential host countries. It thus shows varying constraints experienced these cases strategies pursued to overcome them. States in are heavily dependent on imports...

Solving the global water crisis requires to be economically mobile. Well-regulated markets that can allocate scarce resources their best economic, social and environmental uses will require rigorous accounting; access resource by legal, transparent enforced permits; a market where permitted sold users have more than enough other potential make better use of it. This involve exclusion weaponization for exercise power dismantling distortions such as agricultural subsidies are rarely aimed at...