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WORLD AGRICULTURE TOWARDS 2030/2050 The 2012 Revision Nikos Alexandratos and Jelle Bruinsma Global Perspective Studies Team ESA Working Paper No. 12-03 June 2012 Agricultural Development Economics Division food and AGRICULTURE Organization of the United Nations i WORLD AGRICULTURE TOWARDS 2030/2050 : the 2012 revision Nikos Alexandratos and Jelle Bruinsma Global Perspective Studies Team FAO Agricultural Development Economics Division Abstract This paper is a re-make of Chapters 1-3 of the Interim Report WORLD AGRICULTURE : TOWARDS 2030/2050 (FAO, 2006). In addition, this new paper includes a Chapter 4 on production factors (land, water, yields, fertilizers). Revised and more recent data have been used as basis for the new projections, as follows: (a) updated historical data from the food Balance Sheets 1961-2007 as of June 2010; (b) undernourishment estimates from The State of food Insecurity in the WORLD 2010 (SOFI) and related new parameters (CVs, minimum daily energy requirements) are used in the projections; (c)

Like the interim report, this re-make does not include projections for the Fisheries and Forestry sectors. Calories from fish are, however, included, in the food consumption

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  World, Food, Agriculture, Consumption, 2003, Towards, 2005, World agriculture towards 2030 2050, Food consumption

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