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Chapter 9 Data: Feeding Eight Billion People Well (XLS PDF Highlights) Undernourishment in the World and in Selected Groups and Regions, 2009 Undernourishment in the World, 1969 - 2009 World Grain Production and Consumption, 1960 - 2009 World Average Grain Yields, 1950 - 2009 World Grain Yields, Annual Percent Increase by Decade, 1950 - 2009 Milk Production in India and the United States, 1961 - 2007 World Animal Protein Production, 1961 - 2007 World Soybean Production, 1964 - 2009 World Fertilizer Consumption, 1950 - 2008 Top of Page

Chapter 2 Data: Population Pressure: Land and Water (XLS PDF Highlights) World Grain Production and Consumption, 1960 - 2009 World Grain Consumption and Stocks, 1960 - 2009 Wheat - Oil Exchange Rate, 1950 - 2008 Wheat Production in Saudi Arabia, 1960 - 2009, with Projection to 2016 Grain Harvested Area Per Person in Selected Countries and the World in 1950 and 2000, with Projection to 2050 U.S. Corn Production and Use for Fuel Ethanol, 1980 - 2009 Countries Overpumping Aquifers in 2009 World Irrigated Area and Irrigated Area Per Thousand People, 1950 - 2007 World Population of Cattle, Sheep, and Goats, 1961 - 2007 Livestock and Human Populations in Africa, 1961 - 2007 Livestock and Human Populations in Nigeria, 1961 - 2007 Livestock and Human Populations in China, 1961 - 2007 World Total and Per Person Wild Fish Harvest, 1950 - 2007 Top of Page

Through irrigation, fertiliser, pesticides, and plant breeding, the Green Revolution increased world grain production by an astonishing 250 per cent between 1950 and 1984, raising the calorie intake of the world's poorest people and averting severe famines.

World grain production is about 2.22 bn tons / yr, according to the USDA, with the US producing about 415mt of this, so the «rest of the world» produces about 1.8 bn tons per year.

Among other things, this means that the surplus world grain production capacity and cheap food of the last half - century may soon be history.

It is only within the last 60 years or so that rising yields have replaced area expansion as the principal source of growth in world grain production.

Corn dominates world grain production at about 900 million tons, followed by rice and wheat at about 700 million each.

Crop production has not slowed: total world grain production last year was the third highest in history.

Not exact matches

By 1985 the Food and Agriculture Organization predicts an 85 million ton gap between grain production and world need.

Scientists from Japan and the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) have discovered a rice gene that in preliminary testing increased production by 13 - 36 % in modern long - grain indica rice varieties — the world's most widely grown types of rice.

Speakers I found especially engaging included: Louise Fresco, who presented the keynote on future trends in food including tailored nutrition and food printing and the simultaneous challenge of sufficient calories in the developing world, and adequate nutrition in the developed world; and Simon Costa who developed and distributed a micro hermetic silo for grain storage reminding us that funding is mainly directed towards researching increased agricultural production while post-harvest losses go unaddressed.

SACRAMENTO, California, September 14, 2017 / PRNewswire / — RiceBran Technologies (NASDAQ: RIBT and RIBTW)(the «Company» or «RBT»), a global leader in the production and marketing of value - added products derived from rice bran, announced today that Continental Grain Company, one of the oldest food and agribusiness companies in the world, has entered into an agreement to purchase 2.7 million shares of RiceBran Technologies common stock from the Company for $ 2.9 million.

Nature Bio-Foods Ltd (NBF), a pioneer in organic food grains since 1997, has taken great initiative to bring sustainability to small and marginal farms through organic agriculture production in combination with the world's highest ethical standards from Faitrade International, Germany and their FLO - Cert Fairtrade standard.

A quick look at the FAO (2013) stats shows the supply of all these grains combined is a tiny fraction of the total world production and consumption of grains and seeds.

That determination was made by consulting firm Maplecroft in their Food Security Index 2010 based on 12 criteria developed in cooperation with the World Food Programme: Nutritional and health status of populations, grain production and imports, GDP per capita, natural disasters, conflict, and effectiveness of government, and more.

When world grain supplies tightened in 2007, there was no idled U.S. cropland to quickly return to production and there were no excess grain stocks to draw upon.

Indeed, as a result of official policy in the United States and Europe, including aggressive production targets, biofuel consumed more than 6.5 percent of global grain output and 8 percent of the world's vegetable oil in 2010, up from 2 percent of grain supplies and virtually no vegetable oil in 2004.

Robert, the notion that western grain production feeds the third world is just as much a con job as the notion of ethanol from grain.

Today 6.5 % of the world's grain is being used as feedstock for global ethanol production representing only one million barrels per day of the 85million barrels consumed daily.

Among the ironies here was the impetus such political activity imparted to blocking the production of so - called «golden rice,» a nutritionally enhanced GM grain that public health advocates hailed for the contribution it could make to combating afflictions (including preventable blindness) in malnourished children in the developing world.

World grain from U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), with data for 1950 — 59 from Worldwatch Institute, Signposts 2002, CD - ROM (Washington, DC: 2001), and data for 1960 — 2011 from USDA, Production, Supply and Distribution, electronic database, at www.fas.usda.gov/psdonline, updated 10 May 2012.

Such temperatures would eliminate grain production in almost all agricultural regions in the world [130].

Vilsack's support for unsustainable industrial ethanol production has already caused global corn and grain prices to skyrocket, literally taking food off the table for a billion people in the developing world.»

Additional data and information sources at www.earth-policy.org Read more about grain production: Rethinking Food Production For A World Of Eight Billion Food Shortages Drive Global Prices to Record Highs Rising Temperatures, Rising Fproduction: Rethinking Food Production For A World Of Eight Billion Food Shortages Drive Global Prices to Record Highs Rising Temperatures, Rising FProduction For A World Of Eight Billion Food Shortages Drive Global Prices to Record Highs Rising Temperatures, Rising Food Prices

During the last half of the last century, ensuring adequate supplies of grain in the world market at a time of surplus production capacity was a relatively simple matter.

This helps explain why the share of the world grain harvest used for feed has not increased over the last 20 years even though production of meat, milk, eggs, and farmed fish has climbed.