The world will need 70% more food in 40 years

The statistics are not only grim, but they also harshly illustrate why the world is, and will continue to be, in desperate need of all the food that farmers can possibly produce for decades to come:

#1 – The United Nations projects the world’s population will increase by 2.3 billion people (33 percent) by the year 2050.

#2 – According to the U.N. Human Rights Council, an estimated 36 million people in the world die directly or indirectly from hunger each year now.

#3 – In addition to more mouths to feed, it says demand for food will also increase as a result of higher standards of living in developing countries, where most of the population growth is expected to occur.

#4 – The net result will be a need for 70 percent more food worldwide than is produced today, in order to prevent even more deaths from starvation.

Increased yields from existing farms would be highly unlikely to meet these growth needs, even if all of them were to stay in business. Projections are that an astounding 300 million acres of new arable ground will have to be put into production in order to keep up.

World leaders will gather in Rome, Italy, next week to discuss this potential crisis at a forum entitled, “How to Feed the World in 2050”, in preparation for the World Summit on Food Security in Rome in mid-November.