{"id":554254,"date":"2026-03-21T04:59:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T04:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/554254\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T04:59:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T04:59:20","slug":"nourish-and-flourish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/554254\/","title":{"rendered":"Nourish and Flourish:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feeding\u00a0a\u00a0global population of\u00a010 billion by 2050\u00a0sustainably\u00a0will depend on how countries balance food production with water resources. Today\u2019s global food systems leave major opportunities untapped in water-rich regions, yet deplete resources where water is scarce.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Drawing on geospatial analysis, household data, and country experience,\u00a0Nourish and Flourish\u00a0introduces a\u00a0new\u00a0framework linking water availability, food production, and trade to inform country-level decision making.\u00a0It shows that when food production aligns with water realities, the same land and water can deliver\u00a0better results\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0raising\u00a0yields, improving\u00a0livelihoods, creating\u00a0jobs,\u00a0and\u00a0reducing\u00a0pressure\u00a0on the\u00a0environment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feeding\u00a0a\u00a0global population of\u00a010 billion by 2050\u00a0sustainably\u00a0will depend on how countries balance food production with water resources. Today\u2019s global&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273892,64,63,75,128,11814,273893],"class_list":["post-554254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-agricultural-water-management","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-water","tag-world-bank-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}