Food Security: The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion People

Author:

Godfray H. Charles J.1,Beddington John R.2,Crute Ian R.3,Haddad Lawrence4,Lawrence David5,Muir James F.6,Pretty Jules7,Robinson Sherman4,Thomas Sandy M.8,Toulmin Camilla9

Affiliation:

1. Department of Zoology and Institute of Biodiversity at the James Martin 21st Century School, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PS, UK.

2. U.K. Government Office for Science, 1 Victoria Street, London SW1H OET, UK.

3. Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board, Stoneleigh Park, Kenilworth, Warwickshire CV8 2TL, UK.

4. Institute of Development Studies, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RE, UK.

5. Syngenta AG, Post Office Box, CH-4002 Basel, Switzerland.

6. Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, UK.

7. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Essex, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, Essex CO4 3SQ, UK.

8. Foresight, U.K. Government Office for Science, 1 Victoria Street, London SW1H OET, UK.

9. International Institute for Environment and Development, 3 Endsleigh Street, London WC1H 0DD, UK.

Abstract

Continuing population and consumption growth will mean that the global demand for food will increase for at least another 40 years. Growing competition for land, water, and energy, in addition to the overexploitation of fisheries, will affect our ability to produce food, as will the urgent requirement to reduce the impact of the food system on the environment. The effects of climate change are a further threat. But the world can produce more food and can ensure that it is used more efficiently and equitably. A multifaceted and linked global strategy is needed to ensure sustainable and equitable food security, different components of which are explored here.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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3. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) State of Food Insecurity in the World 2009 (FAO Rome 2009).

4. A. Evans The Feeding of the Nine Billion: Global Food Security (Chatham House London 2009).

5. Forecasting Agriculturally Driven Global Environmental Change

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