Can the poultry industry meet its future needs sustainably?

A challenging paper appeared in a recent issue of the World’s Poultry Science Journal. Prepared by 2 scientists from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, this publication set out to describe how the industry can face the prospect of helping to feed the greatly increased world population, expected to reach 9.8 billion by the year 2050. Not only will the world’s population be larger in the decades to come but more people will live in an urban setting, thus ever