"Barring nuclear wars, pandemics and cosmic accidents, there will be about 9.3 billion people living in the world of 2050 - but they will eat as much food as 13 billion people at today’s nutritional levels. Global food production in an overpopulated, affluent and resource-scarce world will be the scientific challenge of the era."
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