Plants watered by the sea: sprouting a new way of farming

Isn't it remarkable that we recognise the fact that the world faces huge problems in terms of water, energy and food security - and yet we tend to tackle these as separate problems, as if they have no interconnections.

So here's a radical idea. What if the world's food, water and energy problems were tackled together, in a way that lowered costs and made the whole greater than the sum of the parts?

A project is taking shape in Australia that promises to take just such an approach. It's very small in scale at the moment, and is limited to just fresh vegetables - but it does demonstrate great potential because of the links it builds between water, energy and food.

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