Food Production Needs to INCREASE by 70 Percent by 2050 says UN FAO
In a recent paper, the FAO is predicting that in order to properly feed an additional 2.5 billion people while striving towards eradicating poverty and hunger, food production will have to increase by 70 percent over the next forty years.
The FAO will be hosting a High-Level Expert Forum in Rome on 12-13 October to discuss “How to Feed the World in 2050″. The Forum will bring together around 300 leading experts from academic, non-governmental and private sector institutions from developing and developed countries.
The complete paper can be read here.
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