How we can feed the world Much has been said in agricultural and
policy circles about the need to feed the world. In fact, the
real opportunity we have in the seed industry is to provide the
tools for global food production. Along with seed, these tools
include agronomic technology to grow, harvest, store, process
and distribute crops. We can take some big steps towards a truly
sustainable global food supply by using science, and also
release farmers in developing nations from the confines of
subsistence farming. The biggest challenges we face are,
respectively: • Rising global population; • Limited land area on
which to grow food; • Climate change, which affects agricultural
output; and • Unequal distribution of wealth and access to food
around the world. Currently, we share planet Earth with just
under seven billion people. The United Nations expects this
figure to grow by at least another two billion by the year 2050,
an increase of around 30 percent. It is generally accepted that,
as the population increa