Tag: Global Food system

A Pivotal Year for Sustainable Food

For the human race to survive and thrive, we must feed ourselves in a safe and sustainable manner. This will be a considerable challenge, especially with the global population expected to reach 10 billion by 2050. Such rising demand will require a 70% increase in food productivity and a doubling in protein production worldwide, at a time when arable land degradation is increasing and crop yields are starting to show a decline. Despite the increasingly bleak scenario we face, there is a solution: the alignment of the human race and the planet’s ecosystem by supporting a revolutionary transformation in global agriculture, with neem at the forefront of this imperative change.…