Terry D. Etherton
As readers of Terry Etherton Blog on Biotechnology appreciate, I have written a great deal about the looming World population growth, and the challenges we will confront in feeding the World’s population over the next 40 years.
Recently, the scientific journal, Nature, published an excellent series of articles about this topic (July 29 issue). This is noteworthy because Nature is the preeminent scientific journal in the World. It is telling that the leading life science journal in the World focused much of the July 29 issue on this topic.
In the Editorial in this issue, How to Feed a Hungry World, several important issues are presented that must be overcome if we are to produce and distribute sufficient food to feed the projected population of the World in 2050, about 10 billion people (the current World population is approximately 6.9 billion). Continue reading How to Feed a Hungry World