One-Quarter of World’s Agriculture Grows in Highly Water-Stressed Areas
Douglas Shinsato
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Douglas Shinsato
IEEE Standard for Agricultural Products Supply Chain Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) Working Group
THIS WAS PUBLISHED IN 2013. THE SITUATION IS WORSE TODAY.
A new interactive map from WRI’s Aqueduct project reveals that more than 25 percent of the world’s agriculture is grown in areas of high water stress. This figure doubles when looking at irrigated cropland, which produces 40 percent of global food supply.