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Climate change is making water more scarce in some areas, but water-intensive meat production isn’t slowing down.
Agribusiness giant Cargill last week released its annual corporate responsibility report, a set of goals focused on sustainability that influence how the company will operate worldwide.
Researchers say that food prices may double nearly every seven years as the world's population soars toward 9 billion people and demand sharply increases. Researchers covered food demand, along with other topics, at the iSEE Congress 2014 sustainability conference this week.
Feeding the world by 2050 will be challenging, as the world’s population is expected to peak at 9 billion by then. But today’s strategies of research, technology and education to meet that demand are facing challenges too, experts said.