The Challenge

  1. Making the most out of domestically available water resources

 

 
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Managing Food Security in Desert Countries

Providing food security for the populations of the Arab Peninsula and North Africa is one of the big challenges of our times. Managing food security consists of finding the optimum balance of 3 variables:

 
 
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One of the main obstacles to finding the right balance between domestic food production, food imports and food production in foreign countries lies in the lack of a common logical denominator that allows for a smooth communication between statesmen, developers and agronomists. Currently, the parties think in different concepts: 

  • The statesman thinks in strategic units: millions of people, billions of dollars, thousands of square kilometers.
  • The developer thinks in monetary units: investment, profit, risk.
  • The agronomist thinks in physical units: hectares, cubic meters of irrigation water, tons per hectare.

Time has come to introduce a new coherent and logical concept to allow for strategic thinking in matters of food security, water and farming: 1 CUBIC KILOMETER OF WATER. 

The concept of 1 CUBIC KILOMETER OF WATER (= 1.000.000.000 cubic meters) translates every aspect of farming and food security into cubic kilometers of water and billions of dollars, thus demystifying and simplifying food security and irrigation farming.