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  • Agriculture’s Achilles’ Heel: Water Insecurity Is the Greatest Threat to Sustaining Global Food Production

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    Guest Contributor  //  October 5, 2020  //  By Peter McCornick & Aaron Salzberg
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    This article was originally published by CSIS’s Global Food Security Program as part of their Reset the Table series.

    Simply put, without water there is no food. Global food and nutritional security require resilient agricultural systems, which, in turn, depend on reliable and sustainable supplies of freshwater, whether from rainfall or irrigation. It is an often-neglected dependency, and one that threatens to undermine our ability to meet our future food needs and maintain the ecosystems upon which all life depends.

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