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Final post, tying it all together

 It's been a journey and I have enjoyed the process, unfortunately due to having planned a lot of travel over the next few weeks for competitions this post will be the last. In this post I aim to tie it all together and see where we have gone on our journey. So far in this blog I have not really focused on the interaction between food and water and have only tackled each issue separately in different posts. Today, I will attempt to integrate the two and explain the relationship between food and water. With the less predictable and reliable rainfall globally it is likely we will see a 'change in growing seasons ', the implications of this are that it is highly likely that the current, standard set of operational practices emloyed for agriculture  will simply no longer be applicable. Understandably, climate change is a major threat to food and water security in Sub Saharan Africa - in fact some would say that it is the single largest threat to food and water secu