Heading for the future: The food facts

Often quoted, hardly put in further context: the year 2030. How will future developments affect the growth of meat consumption and production? Using many sources and extrapolating existing figures, Dr Luciano Roppa made an attempt to get a grip on what the world would like the agricultural world to deliver by that year. Sometimes, when the year 2030 is mentioned in projections, this may sound abstract or simply far away. In case somebody warns the society in 2012 for future pressures on the glo