Future needs vs Resource degradation

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Agriculture Revolution and its consequences

It is also clear that current food production and distribution systems are failing to feed the world. Over the next 40 years, world food security will be threatened by a number of developments. Those changes in demand will drive the need for significant increases in production of all major food and feed crops. In most developing countries, there is little room for expansion of arable land. The declining quality of the land and water resources available for crop production has major implications for the future.

Resource degradation reduces the productivity of inputs, such as fertilizer and irrigation. In the coming years, intensification of crop production will be required increasingly in more marginal production areas with less reliable production conditions, including lower soil quality, more limited access to water, and less favourable climates.