{"id":146,"date":"2011-10-18T12:38:13","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T16:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregorbailar.org\/wordpress\/?p=146"},"modified":"2011-10-22T12:01:16","modified_gmt":"2011-10-22T16:01:16","slug":"the-planet-will-house-10-billion-people-and-we-can-feed-them-all-food-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gregorbailar.com\/wordpress\/2011\/10\/18\/the-planet-will-house-10-billion-people-and-we-can-feed-them-all-food-good\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Billion People, We Can Feed Them"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wise words from Nature magazine, through the Daily Good…\"\"<\/p>\n

Within the next century, the world’s population will likely swell to 9 or 10 billion. And according to new research, we can feed them all if we make some radical changes in the way we grow our food.<\/p>\n

As the world’s population\u00a0approaches 7 billion<\/a>, 1 billion of those people continue to go hungry. It’s a huge problem around the word\u2014from the deadly famine in Somalia to the\u00a0dismal hunger statistics<\/a>\u00a0here in the United States.\u00a0Meanwhile, annual increases in agricultural yields have begun to slow down, and our methods of cultivating crops continue to degrade land, water, biodiversity, and climate. It’s not hard to imagine a dystopian future where huge chunks of the population will suffer from chronic hunger while our natural resources are depleted.<\/p>\n

But\u00a0Nature<\/em><\/a>\u00a0magazine brings some good news to the age-old battle between civilization and Earth: It’s not a zero-sum game. Scientists have figured out how we can feed a growing world that doesn’t come at the expense of the planet. There are a few basic (but radical) steps we can take to sustainably double our food production.\u00a0Here’s the strategy:<\/p>\n