Asia facing unprecedented food shortage, UN report says
Major investment in irrigation systems needed to feed population expected to grow by 1.5 billion over next 40 years
But the extra 1.5 billion people expected to live on the continent by 2050 will double Asia's demand for food, says the report from the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) and the World Bank-funded International Water Management Institute (IWMI). Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
The last green revolution staved off starvation but resulted in 700m more mouths to feed and nature which provides so much for free pushed further into a corner. Better irrigaion and the next green revolution may just push us over the cliff. Population always increases to use any advances in food production. The only solution is affordable contraception in the hands of every woman in the world