Life in a hot, hungry world

A billion starving people, high food prices and low stocks, widespread droughts and floods, wars over basic resources, a doubling in the numbers of refugees: world food security is no longer what it was during most of our lifetimes.

But the instability we see today is but a foreshadowing of the famines and conflicts to come, unless we take some urgently-needed and comprehensive measures to prevent them.

The reason is that there are powerful forces driving the instability which are not easily remedied, and each of these plays into the others in unpredictable ways.

The human population, as we know, will reach 9.2 billion in 2050