Crop Science Innovation to Feed 9 Billion People

Godfray Food Security : The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion People

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Food security: the challenge of feeding 9 billion people.

Continuing population and consumption growth will mean that the global demand for food will increase for at least another 40 years. Growing competition for land, water, and energy, in addition to the overexploitation of fisheries, will affect our ability to produce food, as will the urgent requirement to reduce the impact of the food system on the environment. The effects of climate change are ...

Four billion people facing severe water scarcity.

Freshwater scarcity is increasingly perceived as a global systemic risk. Previous global water scarcity assessments, measuring water scarcity annually, have underestimated experienced water scarcity by failing to capture the seasonal fluctuations in water consumption and availability. We assess blue water scarcity globally at a high spatial resolution on a monthly basis. We find that two-thirds...

Feeding ten billion people. three views.

Recent issues of Plant Physiology have contained a marvelous series of essays dealing with issues and controversies that surround the introduction and use of crops developed through the application of recombinant DNA technologies and genetically modified organisms (GMOs). These articles have provided considerable insight and thoughtful analysis of some of the major issues related to this timely...

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