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Focus on Poverty: How can we feed ten billion people?


SciDev.Net, 29 July 2013

Article by Roger Williamson, UNU-WIDER Non-Resident Research Fellow. 

"An alarming study has found that major crop yields are increasing too slowly to meet future food demands. With the latest UN projections suggesting a world population of 9.6 billion by 2050 and the population rising by more than 80 million a year — with the fastest rates in some of the most populous African countries — how will the human race feed itself?"

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Focus on Poverty: How can we feed ten billion people?