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The Isahaya Bay Land Reclamation Project in Nagasaki Prefecture has been Japan’s largest public farmland investment project for 40 years. This project comprises three elements: (1) constructing a 7-kilometer-long sea dyke at the mouth of Ishaya Bay and desalting its inner water by...
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Agriculture ministers from more than 60 countries meeting at the 2026 Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) agreed that addressing water scarcity and competing uses requires placing agriculture at the core of water policy and governance. In the final ministerial communiqué, adopted at the Berlin Agriculture Ministers’ Conference, ministers recognized the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) for its leadership in supporting countries to translate global water and food security commitments into coordinated, on-the-ground action.
The ministers affirmed that, as population growth drives rising food demand while water resources continue to decline, effective water governance has never been more essential for the human rights to water and food.
“This communiqué sends a clear message: water security and food security are inseparable, and agriculture must be at the center of solutions,” said FAO Deputy Director-General Beth Bechdol. “As we move toward the 2026 UN Water Conference, agriculture must remain firmly anchored in the global water agenda — with concrete action that improves water access, governance and resilience for farmers and rural communities.”
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