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Ven Te Chow Memorial Lecture: Localizing water and food security

Ven Te Chow made significant and immense contributions to the field of hydrology, namely deterministic hydrology, stochastic hydrology, open-channel hydraulics and water resources in general, to name a few. His biggest contribution in my opinion, however, is his inclusiveness in opening the hydrology discipline to other fields. The interdisciplinarity is evident in the membership of the International Water Resources Association (IWRA), representing not only science and engineering but also including those from social sciences, law and other disciplines that affect and interact with water. It is in this spirit that I look at the contributions of Ven Te Chow and acknowledge that his vision lives on. In that same spirit, I would like to talk about the localization of water and food security as a way of building resilience in a non-stationary world. This passion of mine grew, from my childhood, in the hills of Lebanon where I heard and still recall the my father’s stories about his childhood and about the way in which land, food and water securities were treated. A vivid memory that I grew up with is his story about a terrace that was so steep that people could not get to it. They would tie a farmer to a rope and lower him down to plough the land after a rainfall and seed it with either fava bean or barley.