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Text Date:
August 22 2002
Text Date:
August 22 2002
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- Estimated world population in 2030: 8.3 billion.
- Number of hungry people in the world in 2030: 440 million (world target for 2015 is 407 million).
- Numbers of chronically malnourished people in sub-Saharan Africa today 194 million, in 2030 183 million.
- Patterns of world food consumption are shifting towards expensive foods such as meat and dairy products.
- Developing countries production of cereal, meat and milk will not keep pace with demand and they will become increasingly dependent on imports.
- 70% of needed increases in crop production will come from higher yields, 20% from an expansion of arable land and 10% from multiple cropping and shorter fallow periods.