{"id":15568,"date":"2011-11-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20111115-04n"},"modified":"2011-11-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T22:00:00","slug":"africa-can-feed-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/africa-can-feed-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa Can Feed the World . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The world now has seven billion people in it, but population growth won&#8217;t stop there. Demographers at the U.N. Population Fund said the big milestone came on Oct. 31, when a Philippine mother gave the world its seven billionth human life. In Kenya, the Daily Nation newspaper highlighted a Kenyan mother and her newborn, also born on the last day of October at Kenyatta National Hospital. That same hospital also delivered five other babies that day.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>By the 2020s, the world&#8217;s population is expected to pass eight billion. By the 2040s, it will top nine billion. That&#8217;s like adding two Chinas between now and the middle of the century, as Robert L. Thompson of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs put it recently.<\/p>\n<p>The greatest challenge of our time will be to figure out how we&#8217;re going to put food in all of these mouths. Over the next four decades, farmers everywhere will have to boost their production by a total of 70%.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Full text: <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970204190504577037701249563614.html\" >online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052970204190504577037701249563614.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Keywords: agricultural technology, GM-crops, genetically modified crops, modified food<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>The world now has seven billion people in it, but population growth won&#8217;t stop there. Demographers at the U.N. Population Fund said the big milestone<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[2970,2971],"class_list":["post-15568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-kenya-agricultural-research-institute","supplier-the-chicago-council-on-global-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15568"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=15568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}