HOW TO FEED
10 BILLION
PEOPLE

By the year 2100, the global population will have reached 10 billion. This means we’ll have doubled the number of people on the planet in a little over a century.

As a result, the world faces an existential dilemma: how do we boost production to feed billions more people, while also reducing agriculture’s negative impact on the environment?

For thousands of years, farming has been central to human civilisation. But the looming ‘population bomb’ means we’re going to need to do things differently. One solution might be smart farming – using internet-connected devices to make farms more efficient. An alternative proposal argues that we should go in the opposite direction and restore farmland to its natural state – the wild ecosystems that are vital to life on Earth but currently in decline.

The stakes couldn’t be much higher: what comes next could either be a self-inflicted cataclysm or the start of a better way of doing things which provides us all with a healthy, reliable and sustainable source of food for generations to come.