Long-Term Projections of Global Food Requirements: Why Were We Wrong? ()
ABSTRACT
This article reports on and analyzes long-term projections of world food requirements compared with observed 2000 data reported by the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization. The importance of this “post-mortem” is to strengthen the case for carrying out long-term projections of essential resources—food, energy, and non-fuel minerals— because of the long-lead times needed to insure that adequate global output levels of these basic ingredients of living standards will be met. This study should prove useful to those preparing today’s long-term projections, with world population projected to rise to over 9bn by mid-century.
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I. Sohn, "Long-Term Projections of Global Food Requirements: Why Were We Wrong?,"
Natural Resources, Vol. 4 No. 2, 2013, pp. 195-208. doi:
10.4236/nr.2013.42026.
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