Food and Water in Africa: Start with a More Careful View
Hi and welcome to my blog! This blog will include a series of posts to discuss some key issues and potential solutions relating to the topic of Food and Water in the African context. In this first post, I would like to start with some reflections about how should we view water and food issues in this continent. Almost undeniably, water and food are two essential preconditions of life, which are also strongly interlinked. Only with sufficient quantity and acceptable quality of water, food security could be achieved to support other economic and social development within a country (Vilakazi et al., 2019) . In other words, water is incontestably embedded in food safety. In terms of water and food in Africa, you probably have seen or known the following statements before: Over 600 million Africans are experiencing water shortages. Nearly one-fifth of the African population is suffering from hunger (FAO, 2021) . Agriculture consumes over 83% of overall freshwater withdraw