Food production must rise 70% by 2050, according to FAO

One in six people worldwide suffers from hunger and every five minutes a child dies from malnutrition.

It's the hunger that hurts and kills!

The representative of United Nations Food and Agriculture Organizations( FAO), Helder Mutéa, said that the population will grow from the current 6 billion to 9 billion people in 2050. In order to everyone has access to food, the food supply needs to increase 70% to the current level over the next 40 years.

Mutéa believes that increased production with less investments will be required. He warns, however, that the need for a sustainable growth for food production, otherwise the ecosystems will be compromised.

One of the most important issues is focused in the controversial issue of environmental preservation. This problem can be analysed since the beginning of the exploitation of natural resources for industrialization till present day. The lack of a management strategy that exacerbates environmental variable, involves the entire production cycle to disposal of waste.

The major focus of current food security according to Mutéia, is more focused on Sub-Saharan Africa and some Asian countries. The estimated number of hungry in the world in 2009 was 1.023 billion people. Today there are 925 million suffering from chronic hunger.

These numbers doesn't estimate the impacts of floods in Pakistan nor the prolonged drought that affected agricultural production in Russia.