With the population of the world at 9 billion in 2050, we may have 370m people facing famine worldwide. FAO says more land is needed to increase food production by 70% in 2050. In a country like Kenya where land is scarce now and famine is the order of the day, the situation will be grave serious in 40 years time when human population will have grown to over 60m people. We may be forced to sacrifice some land in our protected areas to feed this overblown human population!!! If you don’t want to contribute to this catastrophe, let us limit the number of kids per couple to 2. Please read the BBC NEWS article below for more details on the FAO report.
Iregi Mwenja
Food production ‘must rise 70%’
BBC NEWS Page last updated at 16:20 GMT, Monday, 12 October 2009 17:20 UK
Food production will have to increase by 70% over the next 40 years to feed the world’s growing population, the United Nations food agency predicts.
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The dire predictions assume one thing – that technology and/or agricultural efficiency remain about the same as they are now.
Does anyone need reminding about the poor agricultural prospects of southern California and Israel, if it weren’t for technology? Yet both have become breadbaskets for their areas, if not other areas as well.
In fact, improved efficiency and productivity in agriculture are responsible for a large amount of the increased agricultural output over the last several decades. I don’t know exactly how much, but it’s got to be at least 50%.
As I read in a newspaper recently, one man said (paraphrasing): “I’d rather die from eating genetically modified foods than die from starvation.”
Starvation is primarily a technological problem, not a populational one.
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