Title: Opportunities to increase global food production within the Safe Operating Space for human freshwater use Presenter: Jonas JŠgermeyr Abstract: Agriculture is todayÕs most important driver of ecosystem degradation. To maintain life-supporting ecosystems, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) now commit all countries to a transformative agenda to shift agriculture toward environmental sustainability, joined with the doubling of productivity to eradicate hunger by 2030. However, there is little quantitative knowledge on how to attain this historic twin-challenge. Here, I assess opportunities in agricultural water management to reconcile future food production with environmental limits to freshwater use. I present solution-oriented interventions in global rainfed and irrigation systems alike, based on quantitative evidence from mechanistic agro-hydrological modeling.