More and More Food Needed -- Good for RBIZ Cont

More and More Food Needed -- Good for RBIZ

Continued global population growth and, in emerging markets, a growing middle class with changing diets, are spurring the demand for increased food production. According to the United Nations Population Division, the current world population of 7.6 billion is expected to reach 8.5 billion by 2030, 9.7 billion by 2050, and 11.2 billion by 2100. To solve the current food crisis and meet the needs of the growing global population with its changing diets, food production will have to double within the next 30 years.

This increased food production will have to occur on less available arable land. The world has already lost a third of its arable land due to erosion or pollution in the past 40 years. This high-quality, food-producing land has been lost at a rate that far outstrips the pace of natural processes to replace diminished soil.

Doubling food production as the amount of arable land decreases can only be accomplished by intensifying production.

Louis Pasteur -- chance favours only the prepared mind.
Lecture, University of Lille (7 December 1854)