The thirsty business of agriculture
Agriculture is a thirsty business – irrigation alone accounting for about 70 per cent of freshwater withdrawals in the world. With an estimation at hand that about 1.8 billion people in the world will be living with absolute water scarcity by 2025, agriculture would have to economize on water. This is what IFAD is helping smallholder farmers across the developing world do. Read more here.
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