Heading for the future: The food facts

摘要

Often quoted, hardly put in further context: the year 2030. How will future developments affect the growth of meat consumption and production? Using many sources and extrapolating existing figures, Dr Luciano Roppa made an attempt to get a grip on what the world would like the agricultural sector to deliver by that year. Sometimes, when the year 2030 is mentioned in projections, it may sound abstract or simply too far away. In case somebody warns the society in 2012 for future pressures on the globalfood system, the figures seem abstract, vague, or not specific enough. So for all who have been looking for these data, a more detailed projection than this overview can hardly be given. It is hard to combine all of livestock production's future challenges into one sentence. But if one would try, it would sound like this: "We need to produce more and better, with less resources and with sustainability." That is a start. Now the questions are: how much more, how much less resources and how sustainable exactly?