Valuing water properly considering the water exploitation index, water for ecosystems services, water for the basic needs for the population with the best efficient water uses, the final use (water for biofuels should be more expensive than for human food?) could be a solution via stricter water licenses and reuse of wastewater

Valuing water properly considering the water exploitation index, water for ecosystems services, water for the basic needs for the population with the best efficient water uses, the final use (water for biofuels should be more expensive than for human food?) could be a solution via stricter water licenses and reuse of wastewater

Excellent analysis of the situation and I agree that if the 5 areas of action were implemented worldwide, this could make an enormous contribution for the future on the planet and food systems.

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Concern, we now require to produce more clean technology, which requires governments to increase food production in their countries, increasing productivity responsibly, supporting biodiversity and food security. GM foods are usually oils or animal for meat, which should go because it is not sustainable decline over time, by factors of new pests and soil contamination and death.

The solutions to these problems are a whole lot more difficult. No, farmers don't raise corn and soybeans because of subsidies. It just happens to be the most exploitative and mechanized way to produce protein, carbohydrates, and oil for the military-industrial-food complex. To raise anything else would mean less income for the farmer and eventual bankruptcy. Unless a farmer is independently wealthy, he/she has to compete for land--which mostly they don't own, so they have to compete with the idiots who are ready to do unthinkable things to the land a la Monsanto's approach.
Secondly, improving resource efficiency in a competitive market place means that, now, even more marginal land becomes economical for industrial feedgrain/oilseed production which will be used to feed livestock and agrifuel plants. Monsanto, Du Pont, etc. use this fallacy to promote their genetically modified corn and soybeans along with more and more chemicals to combat Mother Nature.
Without a political system to determine land use and a level of agricultural prices that send a signal that food is a precious commodity, all of Mr. Foley's sollutions are hot air. I'm very discouraged.