How can we neutralize this problem and dodge the future crisis?The solution lies at the intersection of money and time.Councilors, legislators and bureaucratic agencies of some countries like India and Senegal have had the foresight to realize this fact and are giving more subsidies to agriculture.More than ever we need the appropriation of time and money away from the army and the militia and toward creating a coherent international plan to deal with hunger.We are about to rapture at the seams, with the world population expected to grow by 2.3 billion between 2009 and 2050.It is estimated that feeding a population of nine billion would require a 70 percent increase in global food production between 2007 and 2050.Why such a discrepancy?The rapidly growing population not only needs more basic foods, like grains, but also enjoys foods higher up on the food chain, like meat.They desire not only the basic essentials of life, but also more sophisticated technologies like automobiles that use bio-fuels!All signposts point to the need for food production in developing countries to almost double.
