The world’s population will hit 10 billion in 2050. Can more food be grown sustainably? WorldHungerDay
“We have to produce 30 percent more food on the same land area, stop deforestation, [and] cut carbon emissions for food production by two-thirds,” says Waite in an interview.
“There is no silver bullet; To prevent more land from being converted into agriculture requires major improvements in feed quality and grazing management. It also requires finding ways to get more than one crop harvest per year,better crop breeding techniques. For example, CRISP-R technology enables the fine tuning of genes to maximize yields. we need to do everything,” Waite says.
, seaweed, or oil seeds-based fish foods rather than relying on small fish to feed larger ones like salmon.“I don’t think the report truly represents the transformative change that the global food system needs to undergo,” says Hans Herren, President of the Washington-basedThe UN Food and Agriculture Organization and UN Committee on World Food Security , among others, endorse a so-calledto food production, but the WRI report doesn’t mention it, Herren said in an interview.
Although the term agroecology isn’t used in WRI’s report, some of the solutions could be called that, said Waite. “I think overemphasis on agroecology as ‘the’ solution crowds out the very real needs for also advancing technological innovation,” he says.
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