Food Supply and Population

A new study prepared by a geographer at McGill discusses how the global supply of food could be doubled without the use of genetic modification or new input technologies (fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides, etc.). The technology we have at present is good enough. What we need to do, as one journalist summed up nicely, is:

"... stop eating meat, halt the expansion of land for agriculture, reallocate precious water and other resources to areas that lack them and reduce spoilage and waste on farms and along the value chain"

Read more about the report here.