Harnessing Data Will Be Key To Feeding Billions Of New People

The numbers are staggering. In three decades, the global population is expected to grow to nearly 10 billion. Feeding all those people — which includes 3 billion or so added since 2010 — won’t be possible unless food and beverage producers embrace a variety of solutions in the march toward sustainability.

According to a report by the World Resources Institute, almost two dozen recommendations need to be simultaneously implemented to close the food gap. These are broken down into five categories: reduce growth in demand for food and other agricultural products; increase food production without expanding agricultural land; protect and restore natural ecosystems; increase fish supply; and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural production.