Simply upping how much food we're producing - without changing how it's done - will make emissions and water usage worse.
As climate change and water shortages get more severe, the more difficult it will be to produce food with the same methods we use today.
"You can't see climate change as an isolated challenge; it is connected to water and food production," says Joakim Hauge, president of the Sahara Forest Project Foundation, the organisation behind the Wadi Araba project.
"Water is really the shortage. If you cannot depend on the rain, but have a reliable water supply with this desalinated water, then if you have adequate funding, and master the techniques you can go produce food and even become an exporter of food."
No-one doubts there will be a number of challenges ahead. But even now, the team has already started tackling the difficulties of just how you use desalinated water to grow crops in the inhospitable desert.
The wall is covered with a sort of 'blanket' that draws the water down; when the wind blows through, the water evaporates, cooling the air.
Even if the team is mastering how to grow crops in a desert, there's one stumbling block they haven't yet overcome: how to carry the seawater 15km from the Red Sea to the site.
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180822-this-jordan-greenhouse-uses-solar-power-to-grow-crops
As climate change and water shortages get more severe, the more difficult it will be to produce food with the same methods we use today.
"You can't see climate change as an isolated challenge; it is connected to water and food production," says Joakim Hauge, president of the Sahara Forest Project Foundation, the organisation behind the Wadi Araba project.
"Water is really the shortage. If you cannot depend on the rain, but have a reliable water supply with this desalinated water, then if you have adequate funding, and master the techniques you can go produce food and even become an exporter of food."
No-one doubts there will be a number of challenges ahead. But even now, the team has already started tackling the difficulties of just how you use desalinated water to grow crops in the inhospitable desert.
The wall is covered with a sort of 'blanket' that draws the water down; when the wind blows through, the water evaporates, cooling the air.
Even if the team is mastering how to grow crops in a desert, there's one stumbling block they haven't yet overcome: how to carry the seawater 15km from the Red Sea to the site.
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180822-this-jordan-greenhouse-uses-solar-power-to-grow-crops
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