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Vegetable stall at Borough market in London

07/03/2015

The Future of Food

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Do we need to produce more food by 2050 than we have in the past 10,000 years?

Is it true we will need to produce more food in the next 40 years than we have in the previous 10,000 years?

“In the next 40 years, humans will need to produce more food that they did in the previous 10,000,” claimed a recent edition of The Economist. Ruth Alexander and Hannah Moore look at whether this is true.

With the world’s population expected to reach nine billion by 2050, how confident can we be that everyone will have enough to eat?

(Image: Vegetable stall at Borough market in London. Credit: Press Association)

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