News Headline
The State of Food and Agriculture 2020: Overcoming water challenges in agriculture
Source
Relief Web
Publication Date
2020-11-26
More than three billion people live in agricultural areas with high to very high levels of water shortages and scarcity, and almost half of them face severe constraints. Furthermore, available freshwater resources per person have declined by more than 20 percent over the past two decades, underscoring the importance of producing more with less, especially in the agriculture sector, the world's largest user.