Food safety and water allowance coefficient

After global food price crisis in 2008, urgent importance of adequate safety nets, social programmes and needs of improvement of productivity and increase resilience are turned out. Most important indicators of the crisis were man-made; global water dilemma is appeared. Some of its main drivers are decreasing water supply rate per capita and the phenomenon of ‘economic water scarcity’. Sustainable way out could be ‘intensified hydro-solidarity, international legislation and its effective usage’. Practical solution can be the usage of water footprint estimation in decision making, since it is a measurement of expropriation of fresh water by humanity. It shows the absolute water need of producing a product or service along the whole supply chain. By this water need and responsibility of actors can be stated. Thinking forward, Water Allowance Coefficient could be a tool for decision makers to optimise water productivity. As a result of the primer estimations regional Water Allowance Coefficient values and regional and national freshwater values have been calculated. Average value of water used for agricultural production on a hectare is 1450 USD in Hungary. Rainwater has the highest value from it, 680 USD. The aggregated value in Hungary is over 7.765 billion USD.