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As reported in the Guardian Access to water will become harder as the climate crisis intensifies. For example, see this article on the Spanish villages where people are forced to buy back their own drinking water.

This article in the FT is a year old but a very concerning read. After decades of rapid growth thanks to the development of new varieties, yields are stagnating in four big rice-producing countries in south-east Asia, according to a recent study in Nature Food, an academic journal. Globally, on average yields increased 0.9 per…