Offset water scarcity and increase food
crop yields and quality for rain-fed farmers
in developing economies
Distribute enough superabsorbent in five years so that 1 million subsistence farming households grow their way out of poverty - then 10 million and 100 million households (see http://www.abundancefarming.org/supporters.html )
Alignment With Global Goals
Millennium Development Goal 1: Eradicate Extreme Poverty & Hunger -Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose income is less than $1 a day
World Bank, World Health Organization and the UN/FAO unite to promote potato farming in the developing world to meet the Millennium Development Goals – naming 2008 the "International Year of the Potato"
“Water harvesting techniques are useful for bridging short dry spells…improving
rain-fed agriculture holds considerable potential to increase food production
and reduce poverty”
- 2007 UN report, Coping with Water
Scarcity