The Food Race
The world's supply of food is becoming more and more imbalanced. One billion people are starving, and every 10 seconds, a child dies of hunger or related complications. At the same time, the world's food production is at its peak, and the demand for meat is growing. How can it be that plant diseases ruin up to 30% of the world's harvest and pests, and less than half our harvest ends up on our plate? This film reveals the causes and impacts of this imbalance and tries to find solutions to how we can get prepared to feed up to nine billion people in the next 35 years.
The world's supply of food is becoming more and more imbalanced. One billion people are starving, and every 10 seconds, a child dies of hunger or related complications. At the same time, the world's food production is at its peak, and the demand for meat is growing. How can it be that plant diseases ruin up to 30% of the world's harvest and pests, and less than half our harvest ends up on our plate? This film reveals the causes and impacts of this imbalance and tries to find solutions to how we can get prepared to feed up to nine billion people in the next 35 years.
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