Feeding and fuelling the world through technology

There are 6.7 billion people living on the planet and this number is expected to exceed 9 billion by 2050. The need for food for people, feed for animals and fuel for energy, such as for domestic heating, motor transport and industry is increasing. This means the world needs to produce more crops to meet the world’s increasing demand: Global demand for cereals is likely to increase by a further 40% and global demand for meat by 60% in the next 40 years.Food production from…