Main content
The Future of Food
Is it true we will need to produce more food in the next 40 years than we have in the previous 10,000 years?
鈥淚n the next 40 years, humans will need to produce more food that they did in the previous 10,000,鈥 claimed a recent edition of The Economist. Ruth Alexander and Hannah Moore look at whether this is true.
With the world鈥檚 population expected to reach nine billion by 2050, how confident can we be that everyone will have enough to eat?
(Image: Vegetable stall at Borough market in London. Credit: Press Association)
Last on
Sun 8 Mar 2015
23:50GMT
91福利社 World Service Online
More episodes
Previous
Broadcasts
- Sat 7 Mar 2015 14:50GMT91福利社 World Service Online
- Sun 8 Mar 2015 05:50GMT91福利社 World Service Online
- Sun 8 Mar 2015 23:50GMT91福利社 World Service Online
Unlock the history and truth behind the data with The OU
Explore how numbers shape, and sometimes mislead us, with The Open University.
When can you trust statistics?
Podcast
-
More or Less
Tim Harford explains the numbers and statistics used in everyday life
