Animal Agriculture: Worldwide

Overview
 The First Question ????
• Are current public and private investments
sufficient to ensure adequate agricultural
production potential, sustainable use of
natural resources, infrastructure for markets,
information and communication and research
for technological breakthroughs for the
future?
 The second Question ?
• Will resources, new technologies and
supporting services be available to the people
who will need them most - the poor?
• What’s to undertake in order to help
agriculture meet the challenges of climate
change and growing energy scarcity/demand?
 How to feed the world !?
Here are the facts:
• Sharp increases in food prices that occurred in
global and national markets in recent years.
• Increases in the number of hungry and
malnourished people.
• In the first half of this century, global demand for
food, feed and fiber is expected to grow by 70
percent.
• Crops may also be used for bio-energy and other
industrial purposes (on the expense of food
production!).