Declining water quality and quantity is a threat to the production of food and fibre worldwide.

The current global food crisis mainly affects the poorest billion citizens on Earth.

This document is the updated product of a two week writing sabbatical undertaken in October 2006 by former Land & Water Australia Director Andrew Campbell.

On the land and in country towns, the battle to survive goes on forever. Increasingly, the world needs food and fibre, but squeezes out the communities which provide them.