Daouda Sanankoua said dams have already diverted water and changed the timing of when it reaches his district. (Photo: Fred Pearce)

Ministro da Agricultura, Wagner Rossi

Arable land in North Africa could help to feed the Gulf. (Photo: Rafael Marchante/ Reuters)

Elias Assouad, CEO of Tecmo Group, a subsidairy of the Assouad Group: “If we all work together we can produce food products with a cost of less than 10 per cent than that of the items we import."

Tanjung Manis

British Ambassador to the Ukraine Leigh Turner

Nabil Maaloul, CEO of Gulf Merchant Bank.

UAE President Shaikh Khalifa and Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko meeting in November, 2009.(Photo: WAM)

John Paul thwaytes, Founder of JPT Capital.

Malaysia is one of the selected countries for the Saudi Kingdom's Food Security Initiative, which is backed by an investment fund amounting SR3 billion.

Lester Brown (Photo by Rebecca Harms. Creative Commons)

Irrigated gardens along the Niger River in Mali. All land grabs are, in essence, water deals. (Photo: Michael Fay/NG/Alamy)

Women harvest rice in Mali, where 80% of the population depend on farming for their livelihood. (Photo: Guido Cozzi/Atlantide Phototravel/Corbis)

Farmers in Tajikistan (Photo: amoredimamma)