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Season 40 · Episode 5 of 5 Aired Dec 30, 2005

Food for the Future

Fri, Dec 30, 2005
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Most of us get enough to eat, but roughly 800 million people in the world go hungry every day. The world's population is set to increase from about six billion today to nearly ten billion by 2050. Will more people inevitably go hungry? Is the earth capable of producing enough food for the future? In the 20th century the green revolution produced a lot more food for the world's rapidly expanding population, through a mixture of better crops, more fertilisers and pesticides and more efficient machinery. Is the same solution going to work in the 21st century? What will be the impacts on the environment?

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Fri, Dec 30, 2005

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The Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

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