Showing posts with label UN Environment Programme. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UN Environment Programme. Show all posts

Monday, August 22, 2011

Water crisis, population surge prompt rethink on food: UN

Stockholm: Population growth and water stress are driving Earth to a food and environmental crunch that only better farming techniques and smarter use of the ecosystem will avert, a UN report issued today said.

The number of humans is expected to rise from seven billion in 2011 to at least nine billion by 2050, boosting demands for water that are already extreme in many countries and set to worsen through global warming.