To feed the world in 2050 we have to change course | Ensia.
November 12, 2014 — The 2008 global food price spikes were a wake-up call to global policy-makers, shaking them from the lethargic slumber of the overfed. The rhetorical responses were swift, but policies and practices have changed little. That is in part because they relied on the tried-and-failed solution of increasing commodity food production.
Agribusiness led the charge, with dire warnings about unsustainable population growth and looming resource constraints. How can we produce enough food to feed this growing population?
“Between now and 2050, we need to double the food supply,” said Robert Fraley, executive vice president and chief technology officer of Monsanto, during an interview with National Public Radio’s Takeaway host John Hockenberry. “That’s probably the greatest challenge facing mankind.”
Indeed, that was the theme of this year’s World Food Prize event, which took place October 15–17 in Des Moines, Iowa. The event promised more of the same solutions.
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