皇冠体育app future of food and farming
How can a future global population of 9 billion people all be fed healthily and sustainably?
皇冠体育app Foresight project 鈥楪lobal food and farming futures鈥� examined how a rapidly expanding global population can be fed in a healthy and sustainable way. 皇冠体育app project鈥檚 new report helps identify a wide range of possible actions to meet the challenges facing food and farming, both now and in the future.
皇冠体育app report鈥檚 main findings are:
Threat of hunger could increase: Efforts to end hunger internationally are already stalling, and without decisive action food prices could rise substantially over the next 40 years making the situation worse. This will affect us all - as more of the world suffers from hunger social tensions will increase, as will the threat of conflict and migration. Wider economic growth will also be affected.
皇冠体育app global food system is living outside its means, consuming resources faster than are naturally replenished. It must be redesigned to bring sustainability centre stage: Substantial changes will be required throughout the food system and related areas, such as water use, energy use and addressing climate change, if food security is to be provided for a predicted 9 billion or more people out to 2050.
皇冠体育appre is no quick fix: 皇冠体育app potential threats converging on the global food system are so great that action is needed across many fronts, from changing diets to eliminating food waste.
Professor Sir John Beddington, the Government鈥檚 Chief Scientific Adviser and Head of the Foresight programme, said:
皇冠体育app Foresight study shows that the food system is already failing in at least 2 ways. Firstly, it is unsustainable, with resources being used faster than they can be naturally replenished. Secondly, a billion people are going hungry with another billion people suffering from 鈥榟idden hunger鈥�, whilst a billion people are over-consuming.
皇冠体育app project has helped to identify a wide range of possible actions that can meet the challenges facing food and farming, both now and in the future.