A Cambodian man walks through a rice field in flood waters at Pea Reang district in Prey Veng province, some 60km east of Phnom Penh on Oct 6, 2011. The United Nations food agency on Monday warned the world will struggle to raise food production by 70 per cent by 2050. -- PHOTO: AFP
Published on Nov 29, 2011
ROME (AFP) - The United Nations food agency on Monday warned the world will struggle to raise food production by 70 per cent by 2050, with a quarter of land considered 'highly degraded' and many farming areas already at risk.
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) report found that erosion, desertification and climate change were endangering key production systems across the world from the Mediterranean to Southern Africa to South-east Asia.
Many farming areas 'face the risk of progressive breakdown of their productive capacity under a combination of excessive demographic pressure and unsustainable agricultural use and practices', the report said.
FAO said that between 1961 and 2009 the world's cropland grew by 12 per cent while farming production expanded 150 per cent - mainly thanks to a significant increase in yields of major crops because of scientific advances.
Published on Nov 29, 2011
ROME (AFP) - The United Nations food agency on Monday warned the world will struggle to raise food production by 70 per cent by 2050, with a quarter of land considered 'highly degraded' and many farming areas already at risk.
The Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) report found that erosion, desertification and climate change were endangering key production systems across the world from the Mediterranean to Southern Africa to South-east Asia.
Many farming areas 'face the risk of progressive breakdown of their productive capacity under a combination of excessive demographic pressure and unsustainable agricultural use and practices', the report said.
FAO said that between 1961 and 2009 the world's cropland grew by 12 per cent while farming production expanded 150 per cent - mainly thanks to a significant increase in yields of major crops because of scientific advances.
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