Concerns have emerged about the future capacity of the world to feed itself - and especially, to do so while meeting important social and environmental goals.  This paper examines food production and consumption, agricultural productivity trends, the need for innovation, and policy prescriptions and recommendations for increasing future agricultural productivity to the levels.

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Support for research, education and extension, and rural infrastructure improvements to help smallholder farmers have declined over the past two decades. This report offers recommendations that would expand U.S. development assistance programs for agriculture and help fight hunger and poverty worldwide.

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Estimates show that within 50 years, the global population will require 100 percent more food than we have today. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization has concluded that the majority of the additional food needs can be produced through agricultural innovation. This paper reviews the growing global demand for food and the implications for consumers, and the role agricultural technologies can play in meeting it.

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The next 30 years present a challenge to the world's agricultural producers and agribusinesses: how to feed a growing world. This report was developed to spur discussion and debate about new policy directions and solutions intended to meet the challenge.

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The number of hungry in the word is increasing. While there is a growing political will to address hunger, efforts to this point have been limited. This paper quantifies access to technology, markets, infrastructure and other core goods for small holder farmers in developing nations and calls for improved policies that address these issues.

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The Wilton Park conference assessed the key challenges to producing the additional food the world will need in the next 20-30 years, and identified a number of national and international policy priorities that should be addressed if the world is to meet the rising demand.

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The findings and recommendations of the task force launched to assess the rising humanitarian, security, developmental, and market impacts of rising food costs and shortages.

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