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Farm production ‘needs to rise 60% by 2050’

As highlighted in our recent infographic (Earth Will Eat Itself) – The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) head Jose Graziano da Silva says “the world had to pursue new and more sustainable ways to increase production” and new models needed to be found. World farm production must rise 60 percent by 2050 to meet the needs of a growing population but this has to happen in “a more sustainable way,” the UN food agency FAO and the OECD said on Wednesday. “It’s mostly going to be about productivity,” Angel Gurria, head of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD),… continue reading

July 12, 2012