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Food Security: The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion People

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A multifaceted and linked global strategy is needed to ensure sustainable and equitable food security, different components of which are explored here.
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Continuing population and consumption growth will mean that the global demand for food will increase for at least another 40 years. Growing competition for land, water, and energy, in addition to the overexploitation of fisheries, will affect our ability to produce food, as will the urgent requirement to reduce the impact of the food system on the environment. The effects of climate change are a further threat. But the world can produce more food and can ensure that it is used more efficiently and equitably. A multifaceted and linked global strategy is needed to ensure sustainable and equitable food security, different components of which are explored here.

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Solutions for a cultivated planet

TL;DR: It is shown that tremendous progress could be made by halting agricultural expansion, closing ‘yield gaps’ on underperforming lands, increasing cropping efficiency, shifting diets and reducing waste, which could double food production while greatly reducing the environmental impacts of agriculture.
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Global food demand and the sustainable intensification of agriculture

TL;DR: Per capita demand for crops, when measured as caloric or protein content of all crops combined, has been a similarly increasing function of per capita real income since 1960 and forecasts a 100–110% increase in global crop demand from 2005 to 2050.
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World agriculture towards 2030/2050: the 2012 revision

TL;DR: In this paper, a re-make of the Interim Report World Agriculture: towards 2030/2050 (FAO, 2006) is presented, which includes a Chapter 4 on production factors (land, water, yields, fertilizers).
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Yield Trends Are Insufficient to Double Global Crop Production by 2050.

TL;DR: Detailed maps are presented to identify where rates must be increased to boost crop production and meet rising demands, which are far below what is needed to meet projected demands in 2050.
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Land Registration, Governance, and Development: Evidence and Implications for Policy

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the literature on the impact of land administration interventions in specific contexts, highlighting the dependence of outcomes on the governance environment, the effectiveness of the state apparatus, and the distribution of socioeconomic power.
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The world food situation: New driving forces and required actions

TL;DR: The influence of the private sector in the world food system, especially the leverage of food retailers, is also rapidly increasing, as can be seen from the World Bank's World Development Report, accelerated public action in African agriculture under the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), and the Asian Development Bank's recent initiatives for more investment in agriculture as mentioned in this paper.
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Land Registration, Governance, and Development: Evidence and Implications for Policy

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the literature on the impact of land administration interventions in specific contexts, highlighting the dependence of outcomes on the governance environment, the effectiveness of the state apparatus, and the distribution of socioeconomic power.
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Genetically Engineered Plants and Foods: A Scientist's Analysis of the Issues (Part I)

TL;DR: For farmers and many consumers worldwide, planting and eating GE crops and products made from them are acceptable and even welcomed; for others GE crops raise food and environmental safety questions, as well as economic and social issues.
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