Demand for food is growing and the world’s farmers are struggling to keep up. Climate change is predicted to have a catastrophic impact on farmlands; decreasing usable farmlands will decrease crop yields.
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- Fish feed people, plants feed people.
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- In a world where population is exploding out of control and more and more people are hungry the future of food lies in our ability to control the growth process, save precious water resources and meet the needs of the masses of people who are hungry.
- How can we grow food continuously year round?
- How can we save 90% of the water we use in outdoor farms?
"It is now estimated that more than 40 percent of the world's rural population lives in river basins that are physically water scarce," said the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) report, which looked at land and water from a food security perspective. That is a lot, considering 75 percent of the population in developing countries is poor, lives in rural areas and depends on agriculture for income and food.
The report, the most comprehensive take on the health of the planet's land and water resources, contains plenty of bad news.
To feed a burgeoning global population, estimated to hit nine billion by 2050, we will have to produce another one billion tonnes of cereals and 200 million extra tonnes of livestock products every year. "The imperative for such agricultural growth is strongest in developing countries, where the challenge is not just to produce food but to ensure that families have access that will bring them food security," the report noted.” To do that we will need to increase agricultural water consumption by 10 percent until 2050. This might not sound like much, but it is "incredibly difficult" for water-stressed countries like South Africa, which can only dream of another one percent increase in the water channeled to agriculture, said Jean-Marc Faures, a water specialist with FAO.
ECO Fresh Solutions believes that just maybe the FAO is wrong. What we need are more ECO Fresh Farms, utilizing Recirculating Aquaponics Systems. The key to the problem is not more water, but rather climate smart farming.
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