http://www.smithsonianmag.com/specialsections/40th-anniversary/Rosamond-Naylor-on-Feeding-the-World.html
The article explains the problems with climate change and an increase in the worlds population, and how both will effect food supply. The following question is asked,"By 2050, there will be an estimated nine billion people in the world. Do we have the land and water to feed them?" Rosamond Naylor proposes that there will need to be a lot more agriculture and raising of live stock to support people, and since agriculture requires vast amounts of water, there may be water shortages. Also, farms are dynamic in production rate. A farm could be providing well and then create scarcity. Certain foundations such as The Gates Foundation, The McKnight Foundation and The Rockefeller Foundation are trying to help world hunger and poverty. Trying to make rural areas places of economical sucess is important.
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