Water supply security
We don’t think of the Middle East as a modern breadbasket, but there is irrigated agriculture here at risk. Stress maps like these are critical in identifying potential hot spots for food disruption and conflict. Food prices and other food-supply disruptions are caused by a complex series of factors, including the global food trade and government subsidies. But local water stress can make the situation worse over the long term. Part of the reason Middle Eastern countries had to import so much food is that water is relatively inaccessible compared to other food-growing regions.
We don’t think of the Middle East as a modern breadbasket, but there is irrigated agriculture here at risk. Stress maps like these are critical in identifying potential hot spots for food disruption and conflict. Food prices and other food-supply disruptions are caused by a complex series of factors, including the global food trade and government subsidies. But local water stress can make the situation worse over the long term. Part of the reason Middle Eastern countries had to import so much food is that water is relatively inaccessible compared to other food-growing regions.
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