Extreme droughts caused by climate change, as well as a consistently increasing demand for food and fuels for a growing population, increase the pressure on worldwide natural resources and in particular water. The article "The Seeds of aridity: Crops for a parched world" by the International Herald Tribune deals with the advantages and disadvantages of drought resistant crops, as well as other approaches to the problem of water scarcity. For this purpose Thomas Dworak, Head of Ecologic Vienna was interviewed. Read the full article by James Kanter published on 20 March 2008.