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Better water management could halve global food gap
2016-02-16 05:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Improved agricultural water management could halve the global food gap by 2050 and buffer some of the harmful climate change effects on crop yields. For the first time, scientists investigated systematically the worldwide potential to produce more food with the same amount of water by optimizing rain use and irrigation. They found the potential has previously been underestimated. Investing in crop water management could substantially reduce hunger while at the same time making up for population growth....
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