Green Scene San Diego - The New Water Reality: Drought and Rationing

George Aggidis, Ian Arbon, Colin Brown, Charles Clarke, John Earp, Tim Fox, David Greenway, Alistair Smith, Bob Stannard, David Warriner, Simon Whatley, David Williams

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Feeding the 9 Billion: The tragedy of waste

By 2075, the United Nations’ mid-range projection for global population growth predicts that human numbers will peak at about 9.5 billion people. This means that there could be an extra three billion mouths to feed by the end of the century, a period in which substantial changes are anticipated in the wealth, calorific intake and dietary preferences of people in developing countries across the world.

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Global Food - Waste Not, Want Not

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Aquatic agriculture offers a new solution to the problem of water scarcity

Submitted by ysp013 on Fri, 03/20/2015 - 7:04pm

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Mark Tran

MDG Floating farms, Lake Nicaragua Photograph: Grand Challenges Canada

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Hunger and nutrition will feature prominently at the G8 summit in Northern Ireland in June, in keeping with the renewed interest in agriculture, especially in Africa, where investors are eyeing the potential of vast tracts of land.

But as experts note, water is the most severe impediment to increasing food production and security.

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Aquatic agriculture offers a new solution to the problem of water scarcity

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