INRA/CIRAD - What challenges must we face to feed the world in 2050?
Beginning in 2006, INRA and CIRAD took the initiative, creating « Agrimonde », a foresight study to explore alternative future scenarios for worldwide agricultural and food system in the year 2050. The issue can be summarised in one phrase : How can we feed close to 9 billion people in a sustainable way? This question is a complex one, because it involves not only fulfilling quantitative nutritional needs of the worldwide population, but also allowing each person access to a healthy and balanced diet, produced by systems that respect the environment, bearing in mind the increasing scarcity of fossil energies, and integrating social dimensions. Producing food in a better way as well as producing more is the real challenge for the
agricultural community of the world.
Experts, of different origins and from a multitude of disciplines have worked together on this foresight study. (...)
The article:
http://www.international.inra.fr/press/7_billion_people_living_on_the_planet_today_9_billion_tomorrow_what_challenges_must_we_face_to_feed_the_world_in_2050
Agrimonde:
http://www.international.inra.fr/the_institute/foresight/agrimonde
CIRAD website:
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Sull'argomento:
http://www.fondazionedirittigenetici.org/fondazione/new/displaysegnalazione.php?id=1219
