It is estimated that global food production must increase by up to 60% in order to satisfy the needs of the over 9 000 million people who are expected to inhabit the planet by 2050. Nevertheless, the amount of available soil and water needed to increase production will not change.
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- The announcement of World Water Day defines wastewater as “water from our homes, cities, industry and agriculture that flows back to nature polluting the environment and losing valuable nutrients and other recoverable materials”. The International Center for Biosaline Agriculture (ICBA), a…
- The final report to the UN Secretary-General's High-Level Panel (HLP) on Women’s Economic Empowerment has now been published, stressing that building women’s economic empowerment must be done in ways that leaves nobody behind, particularly the most marginalized women at the bottom of the pyramid…
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- One-third of all food produced in the world is lost or wasted from farm to fork. This level of inefficiency in the food system has tremendous economic, social, and environmental consequences. In September 2015, a historic window of opportunity opened to elevate the issue of food loss and waste…
- Mankind's future ability to feed itself is in jeopardy due to intensifying pressures on natural resources, mounting inequality, and the fallout from a changing climate, warns a new FAO report out today. Though very real and significant progress in reducing global hunger has been achieved over the…
- With food demand and water scarcity on the uptick, it's time to stop treating wastewater like garbage and instead manage it as a resource that can be used to grow crops and help address water scarcity in agriculture. Properly managed, wastewater can be used safely to support crop production —…