Water, food and agriculture-challenges and issues for the 21~(ST) century

摘要

In 1998, the only issue that the UN General Assembly Was able to agree on at its Special Session five years after Rio Earth Summit of 1992 was the looming water crisis. Closely linked to this crisis is the deepening concern over the global food supply. However, none of the food projections by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Bank, or the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) currently take into account water as a potential constraint.