Water, food and soils
Droughts, falling groundwater and eroding soils are changing agriculture faster than infrastructure and subsidy logic can follow. Water is turning from a given into a question of distribution.
What it is
A landscape either holds water back or drains it away — that is a decision, not a law of nature.
Why now
Conflicts over use between farming, industry and drinking water are already surfacing in individual regions.
Levers
Retaining water in the landscape, efficient irrigation, adapted crop rotations and varieties, regional supply chains, fewer losses between field and plate.