Food security: The challenge of feeding 9 billion people

Science

Volumn 327, Issue 5967, 2010, Pages 812-818

  Godfray, H Charles J ^a   Beddington, John R ^b   Crute, Ian R ^c   Haddad, Lawrence ^d   Lawrence, David ^e   Muir, James F ^f   Pretty, Jules ^g   Robinson, Sherman ^d   Thomas, Sandy M ^h   Toulmin, Camilla ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UK Government   (United Kingdom)

^c AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE DEVELOPMENT BOARD   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES   (United Kingdom)

^e JEALOTT S HILL RESEARCH STATION   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^h Government Office for Science   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEMAND-SIDE MANAGEMENT; EXPLOITATION; FOOD SECURITY; STRATEGIC APPROACH; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

AQUACULTURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIET; ENERGY; ENVIRONMENT; FEEDING; FISHERY; FOOD; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD SECURITY; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

AGRICULTURE; AQUACULTURE; COMMERCE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DIET; FOOD; FOOD HANDLING; FOOD SUPPLY; FOOD, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; GENETIC ENGINEERING; HUMANS; MALNUTRITION; POPULATION GROWTH;

EID: 76749143781     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1185383     Document Type: Review

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53. The authors are members of the U.K. Government Office for Science's Foresight Project on Global Food and Farming Futures. J.R.B. is also affiliated with Imperial College London. D.L. is a Board Member of Plastid AS (Norway) and owns shares in AstraZeneca Public Limited Company and Syngenta AG. We are grateful to J. Krebs and J. Ingrahm (Oxford), N. Nisbett and D. Flynn (Foresight), and colleagues in Defra and DflD for their helpful comments on earlier drafts of this manuscript.
54. If not for his sad death in July 2009, professor Mike Gale (John Innes Institute, Norwich, UK) would also have been an author of this paper.