70% more food needed

Agriculture must become more productive if it is to feed a much larger world population while responding to the daunting environmental challenges ahead, FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf said in his openings address at a 2-day ‘High-Level Expert Forum – How to Feed the World in 2050’ in Rome. Diouf told the 300 delegates that over the next 40 years the combined effect of population growth, strong income growth and urbanization is expected to result in almost the doubling of d