Feed the world and reduce the climate crisis? Yes, it is possible.
Feeding the world’s rapidly expanding population – currently at 7.6 billion and expected to reach 9.8 billion by 2050 – without exacerbating climate change will require the closing of three significant gaps, according to a new report, “Creating a Sustainable Food Future.”
The gaps highlighted in a recent World Resources Institute (WRI) report involve:
food supply, simply producing enough to meet rising demand;
land for food production: The report estimates that if current production rates continue with the same yields, an additional area almost twice the size of India would be required to produce enough food; and
mitigating increased greenhouse gas emissions likely to be produced by the additional food production needed by 2050.
Warmer world + more hungry people = BIG challenges » Yale Climate Connections
Feeding the world’s rapidly expanding population – currently at 7.6 billion and expected to reach 9.8 billion by 2050 – without exacerbating climate change will require the closing of three significant gaps, according to a new report, “Creating a Sustainable Food Future.”
The gaps highlighted in a recent World Resources Institute (WRI) report involve:
food supply, simply producing enough to meet rising demand;
land for food production: The report estimates that if current production rates continue with the same yields, an additional area almost twice the size of India would be required to produce enough food; and
mitigating increased greenhouse gas emissions likely to be produced by the additional food production needed by 2050.
Warmer world + more hungry people = BIG challenges » Yale Climate Connections
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