Description: With the world's population expected to reach 8.2 billion people by 2030, and with 842 million people estimated as having been undernourished in the period 2011-13, food supply will present a growing challenge in the next two decades. This publication presents projections of future food supply up to 2030, building on existing analyses but also providing more economic perspectives on the future evolution of food production. It thus looks at the main drivers of future demand and supply, with a particular focus on fisheries and aquaculture production. The analysis is supplemented with a number of new scenarios on fish production in the period until 2022. (fao.org)
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