Securing water for agriculture is essential to meet future food demands

Each month, an expert from Harper Adams University in Shropshire writes a comment piece about a topic issue in global news. This month, we asked Dr Jim Monaghan, Principal Lecturer in Fresh Produce, to write something to be used in conjunction with the UN's World Water Day (Friday, March 22) - "We have had a very dry one, then a very wet one. Most farmers and growers are wondering what sort of summer we will get this year in the UK. Maybe a more important question is what will the next 20 or 30 summers bring in way of rainfall? We are being told to prepare for more extreme one-off