DECRYPTION – In a recent report on the future of food and agriculture, the FAO establishes several more or less optimistic scenarios, taking into account various assumptions of sustainability and wealth sharing.
We are officially more than 8 billion on earth. According to the latest UN estimates, the world population could jump to 9.7 billion in 2050, then reach a peak of 10.4 billion in the 2080s, before beginning a very gradual decline.
After rapid population growth in Asia, which has resulted in the enormous demographic weight of China and India, demographic growth in the coming years will be largely driven by a handful of countries, mainly African. These will include Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt and Tanzania, whose population has jumped by nearly 40% in ten years.
Therefore, how to manage food needs in the face of the decrease in the quality of land and water resources? What will be the impact of climate change on agricultural yields? How to limit inequalities in access to food?
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