Food is not a subject I know a great deal about, still less agriculture, but I was tempted with this dire winter, where I gather wheat harvests may be down by one third, to start a vegetable patch and grow my own potatoes. That is until I discovered the amount of care and attention required for the plants.
I was fascinated therefore to read this special report on agriculture, where I gather astounding advances have been made over the past few years, which would allow a world population of up to 10 billion to be fed!
"Special Report: The Age of Plenty
There’s a surging current of alarm that we’re headed for a food doomsday by 2050—that the world’s food-producing capacity will crash before population peaks at 10 billion. Don’t you believe it! Smart technology and better management policies will let us feed the hungry hordes to midcentury and beyond."
I was fascinated therefore to read this special report on agriculture, where I gather astounding advances have been made over the past few years, which would allow a world population of up to 10 billion to be fed!
"Special Report: The Age of Plenty
There’s a surging current of alarm that we’re headed for a food doomsday by 2050—that the world’s food-producing capacity will crash before population peaks at 10 billion. Don’t you believe it! Smart technology and better management policies will let us feed the hungry hordes to midcentury and beyond."
Comment