Potential for Increasing Food Production Through Microbiology1

Increasing crop production through more controlled photosynthesis.

Increasing agricultural water use efficiency to meet future food production

With the world’s population set to increase by 65% (3.7 billion) by ∼2050, the additional food required to feed future generations will put further enormous pressure on freshwater resources. This is because agriculture is the largest single user of fresh water, accounting for ∼75% of current human water use. At present ∼7% of the world’s population live in areas where water is scarce. This is p...

China's success in increasing per capita food production.

China has to feed 20% of the global population with only about 5% of the planet's water resources and 7% of its arable land. With such limited natural conditions, however, China's grain production has increased from about 200 kg per capita in 1949 to about 400 kg in the early 1990s. Hunger as a social problem has largely disappeared after being prevalent in China for several thousand years with...

Improving food security through increasing the precision of agricultural development

New technologies for increasing the production of ornamental fish

In recent years, world trade in ornamental fish has grown significantly. Southeast Asia industry use this potential to export these species to other countries. Considering the importance of ornamental fish, attempting to produce more marketable fish is one of the goals of ornamental fish breeders. In this regard, new methods such as coloring for producing the best fish variety, sex change aimed...