Sentences with phrase «doubling global food production»

The group finds, as others have before them, that the challenge of doubling global food production in coming decades can probably be met, albeit with considerable difficulty.

He notes that it may be possible to double global food production, but not to treble it.

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Global population will increase from 7 billion to 9 billion by 2050, requiring food production to double.

A five - step global plan could double food production by 2050 while greatly reducing environmental damage

To feed the world's growing and more affluent population, global agriculture will have to double its food production by 2050.

Growing demand for food means global food production must roughly double by 2050, he says.

A global plan, ambitious but doable, could double food production by mid-century and simultaneously rein in the emissions, deforestation and pollution caused by agriculture

Our recent achievements are impressive - while global population doubled to 6 billion people in the 40 years from 1960, global food production more than kept up.