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Vienna, 20 March 2012. Over the coming decades, feeding a growing global population and ensuring food and nutrition security for all will depend on increasing food production. This, in turn, means ensuring the sustainable use of our most critical finite resource - water. A message by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon upon the occasion of World Water Day 2012.

Arranging payments for the
benefits provided by forests,
fertile soils and other natural
ecosystems is a way to
recognise their value and
ensure that these benefits
continue well into the future.