The coming crisis in food
“Food insecurity,” a development academic said recently, “is the new Aids.” It’s a hideous formulation, but we will hear an awful lot about hunger and the prospect of there being less food to go round as this century progresses. According to the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (UNFAO), in 2009 the number of undernourished people on the planet topped 1bn for the first time.
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