Global food production has more than doubled over the past 40
years, growing faster than population, and will likely keep pace in
the 21st century. Yet today one-eighth of the world's people lack
secure access to the food they need to live active and healthy
lives. This volume describes how together innovative technologies
and sound policies can help close the global food gap--the gap
between demand for and supply of food.
Although markets will continue to supply sufficient food to
those with money to spend, getting food to the poor will require
that government policies and investments supplement the operation
of markets in three critical areas: protecting the natural
resources on which agriculture depends; focusing the benefits of
agricultural research, including biotechnology, on the needs of
small farmers in developing countries; and ensuring that access to
food, resources, and income-generating opportunities is equitable
and secure.
Contributors to this book show how soil degradation,
biotechnology, and other resources and technologies might affect
the future supply of food, as well as how poverty, conflict, and
gender roles might affect demand. They also consider the roles that
institutions must play in meeting the challenge of global hunger.
Finally, they outline the policy priorities required to achieve a
food-secure world in the 21st century.
Contributors: Bruce Alberts, Nicole Ballenger, Donald Duvick,
Craig Gundersen, Eileen Kennedy, Rattan Lal, Alex F. McCalla, Susan
R. McCouch, Ellen Messer, Rajul Pandya-Lorch, Per
Pinstrup-Andersen, G. Edward Schuh, and Keith Wiebe.
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