Feeding the World

We'll likely have two billion more mouths to feed by mid-century more than nine billion people. | The spread of prosperity across the world, especially in China and India, is driving increased demand for meat, eggs, and dairy, boosting pressure to grow more corn and soybeans to feed more cattle, pigs, and chickens. | If these trends continue, the double whammy of population growth and richer diets will require us to roughly double the number of crops we grow by 2050. | But sheer population growth isn't the only reason we'll need more food.