Global food security: Increasing productivity and nutrition, reducing obesity

By Gerald Nelson | Published Jan 4, 2019

Providing food security to the nearly 10 billion people who will inhabit the globe by 2050 is one of the key issues of the 21st century. Given that reality, you might think the international community would at least be able to agree on how to define the problem. Unfortunately, you would be wrong. While a large part of the agricultural research establishment is focused on one aspect of the challenge - calories - another part of the scientific community is focused on a related but different one: a. . .