New study shows increasing crop water productivity could
feed an additional 110 million people while meeting the domestic water demands
of nearly 1.4 billion
Improvements in crop water productivity — the amount of food
produced per unit of water consumed — have the potential to improve both food
security and water sustainability in many parts of the world, according to a
study published online in Environmental Research Letters May 29 by scientists
with the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment (IonE) and the
Institute of Crop Science and Resource Conservation (INRES) at the University
of Bonn, Germany.