Agriculture, food and water by World Water Assessment Programme (United Nations) instant download

Agriculture, food and water by World Water Assessment Programme (United Nations) instant download

viii, 61 pages : 25 cm, Producing our daily food requires one thousand times more water than we use to drink and one hundred times more than we use to meet our basic need. Agriculture is the major source of food and by far the largest consumer of water on the globe. How can more food be produced with the same amount of water? How does food security connect to poverty and water use? These and many other question are discussed in this publication, a slightly modified version of Chapter 8 of the UN World Water Development Report \" Water for people - water for life\", \"World Water Assessment Programme\"--Cover, \"Based on \"Water for people-Water for life, the United Nations World Water Development Report ... where it appears as chapter 8 'Securing food for a growing population.' A slightly modified version of chapter 8 is reproduced.\"--Page iv, Includes bibliographical references (pages 49-51), \"A contribution to the World Water Development Report.\"