Agriculture is expected to face increasing water risks in the future. Climate change, extreme weather events, sea level rise, growing water demand from other sectors, groundwater depletion and pollution will impact agriculture production in different regions of the world. Where are these water risks located? How will they affect markets, trade or food security and what can be done?

On 18 October 2017, Guillaume Gruère of the OECD Trade and Agriculture Directorate discussed the use of a hotspot approach to mitigate the impacts of these growing risks for agriculture and food security. The presentation was based on the recently published OECD study on water: Water Risk Hotspots for Agriculture.

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