I have been very privileged to explore different subsections of the African continent, through different expeditions. On each trip I have experienced various levels of luxury, from a safari to school trips and charity missions. While I believe I have only scraped the surface in my exploration of this continent, one thing has become abundantly clear. Africa is diverse. Diverse in culture, diverse in politics, diverse in economics and diverse in the issues it faces. Two of these issues are things I have been lucky to take for granted in my life: Food and Water. In this introductory blog I shall provide some context to the interconnected nature of these two resources, while exploring some of the opportunities and barriers to development. Water Water provision in Africa is incredibly complex, demonstrated by difficulty in providing a universally accepted metric to measure it. Falkenmark’s Water Stress index is one of the most popular: it states that a country is water-stressed if i