Studies have shown that about 4.3 billion people, constituting 71% of the global population, face moderate to severe water scarcity at least once a month yearly as a result of global forest loss.
Climate change has also become a major global threat with significant impact on forests-food-water relations.
This change is exacerbating water stress and food vulnerability and putting thousands of communities at risk and Ghana cannot afford to be a water or food-scarce country.
The Chairman, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Prof. Robert Kingsford Adaboh disclosed this as part of the 60th Anniversary Open-Day of the Forestry Research Institute of CSIR, at Fumesua, near Kumasi.