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Sustainable Intensive Agriculture: The Route to Feeding 9 Billion by 2050

2 Jul 2015

• 2 Jul 11:58

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Sustainable intensive agriculture is key to feeding nine billion by 2050. This was one of the topics discussed by Dr Sean Rickard at a conference held at the Farmers Club, London, organised by ANPARIO plc, Stuart Lumb reports. Dr Rickard is an economist at Cranfield University and a former adviser for the UK’s National Farmers’ Union (NFU). Dr Rickard has a reputation for being rather controversial and he put forward some very interesting suggestions in his presentation. Expert reports have concluded that global food production will need to rise by 70-100 per cent by 2050 in response to a 30 per cent rise in global population and rapidly rising affluence. Read more...