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• The world grows enough food
to feed its population.• To eradicate hunger, people
in the developing world need to be able to access food by growing it or purchasing it.
• The global population will increase by 42 percent between now and 2050.
• The world’s population is expectedto increase from about6.6 billion people todayto 9.3 billion by 2050.
• Increasing demand for food, fuel and fiber in developing countries, combined with other factors, actually requires agricultural food production to double by 2050.
• Global agriculture actually uses 70 percent of our fresh water, and in the developing world, that percentage is closer to 95 percent.
• Agriculture uses 55 percent of habitable land.
• And the percentage is growing as developing countries cut down forests to grow more food and other agricultural commodities.
http://www.monsanto.com/responsibility/sustainable-ag/factsheet.asp