Maps & Data
Creating a Sustainable Food Future: Interim Findings
How can the world feed more than 9 billion people in 2050 in a manner that advances development and reduces pressure on the environment?
Even if all food produced in 2009 were evenly distributed to all people in 2050, the world would still need 974 more calories per person per day.
Creating a Sustainable Food Future: Achieving Replacement Level Fertility
The United Nations projects that world population will rise from just over 7 billion in 2012 to nearly 9.6 billion by 2050.
Creating a Sustainable Food Future: Improving Land and Water Management
We examination the role of four improved land and water management practices and the effect they could have on smallholder crop yields and livelihoods in Sub-Saharan Africa. We also provide a series of recommendations for how to scale up these practices.
The Great Balancing Act
How can the world feed more than 9 billion people by 2050 in a manner that advances economic development and reduces pressure on the environment? Answering it requires a “great balancing act” of three needs—each of which must be met simultaneously.
Creating a Sustainable Food Future: Reducing Food Loss and Waste
About 24 percent of all calories currently produced for human consumption are lost or wasted. We examine the implications of this amount of loss and waste, profiles a number of approaches for reducing it, and puts forth five recommendations for how to move forward on this issue.
The Great Balancing Act: 3 Needs for a Sustainable Food Future
How can the world feed more than 9 billion people by 2050 in a manner that advances economic development and reduces pressure on the environment? This is one of the paramount questions the world faces over the next four decades.
World Resources Report #1, "The Great Balancing Act."
Change in Agricultural Output Potential, 2000-2080
Of the 2.6 billion people who live on less that $2 per day, almost 2 billion live in rural areas, in countries whose economies and people are most dependent on natural resources.
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