http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2012/jan/22/future-of-food-john-vidal
By 2050 there will be another 2.5 billion people on the planet. How to feed them? Science’s answer: a diet of algae, insects and meat grown in a lab
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/karl-hofmann/10-global-health-achievem_b_1174352.html?ref=impact&ir=Impact
By Jennifer Carpenter Science reporter, BBC News
In a country like Ethiopia the population is burgeoning and is likely to double in the next 26 years to 160 million people (currently about 80 million). Yet the government is allocating land to large international corporations for industrial farming. The produce grown here is exported and this deprives local people of land to grow crops and feed themselves.
This video clip illustrates this process clearly.
Farmers plant onions in Jalgaon, India. Even with India’s farming still dependent on manual labor and the vicissitudes of nature, demand for food has risen.
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