Sustainable food production: constraints, challenges and choices by 2050
We have a large range of
choices in the way future food demand might be met. Meeting this future
food demand has frequently wrongly been articulated as a crisis of supply alone, but in fact the crisis can be avoided by the choices we
make. The food security debate will be enriched by a rigorous evaluation
of all these choices and recognition that the eventual solution will
reside in a mixture of these choices. We could move to a paradigm where ecological sustainability constitutes the
entry point for all agricultural development. Such a paradigm shift could reposition world food
production from its current role as the world’s single largest driver of
global environmental change, to becoming a critical part of a
transition to respect the planet’s biophysical processes and
functions.
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