CHAPTER 2

Food and Agriculture

  1. Global Patterns of Hunger and Undernourishment
  2. Growing Demand for Food
  3. Global Dietary Changes
  4. Rising Productivity Gaps Between the Developed and Developing Economies
  5. Emerging Techniques in Agriculture and Food Production
  6. Limited Arable Land and Application of Fertilizers
  7. Consolidation of Food Production and Distribution Systems

Global Patterns of Hunger and Undernourishment

The current trends portray a mixed and complex picture of global hunger and undernourishment. Despite a rapidly growing global population, the share of undernourished people has decreased across the planet over the course of the past decades. For instance, the world population has increased by 1.9 billion between 1992 and 2016, but the share ...

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