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Crops and Drops

Making the best use of water for agriculture

Year of publication 2002

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 28 p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (series)

Series title FAO AQUASTAT Report

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) Water - Source of food security. World Food Day: 16 October 2002.Water and food security are intimately connected. Many of the over 800 million people in the world who still go hungry live in water-scarce regions. When FAO launched its Special Programme for Food Security in 1994, it was well aware that limited access to water was often a major constraint to increasing food production.

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