World Agriculture Towards 2015 2030

This summary report presents the FAO's latest long-term assessment of the world's food supplies, nutrition and agriculture. The projections cover supply and demand for the major agricultural commodities and sectors, including fisheries and forestry; and includes a detailed examination of other factors, such as nutrition and undernourishment, and the implications for international trade. It also considers the implications of future supply and demand for the natural resource base and discusses how technology can contribute to a more sustainable development. One of the report's main findings is that unless corrective action is taken, the goal of halving the number of undernourished people by 2015 which was set at the World Food Summit in 1996 will not be met. Nothing short of a massive effort to improve the overall development performance will free the developing world of its most pressing food insecurity problems.