date:May 31, 2012
said the crop and livestock sectors account for 70% of water use.
Rural areas are home to three quarters of the worlds poor, most of whom depend on agriculture for their livelihoods.
Forty per cent of the worlds degraded lands are in areas with high poverty rates, the F.A.O. said. Hunger puts in motion a vicious cycle of reduced productivity, deepening poverty, slow economic development and resource degradation.
The report said impediments to success for the 500 million small farms operating