9.1 Billion Mouths To Feed

Nature details the agricultural challenges ahead. On the latest crisis:

The world currently has more than enough food, but some 1 billionpeople still go hungry because they cannot afford to pay for it. The2008 food crisis, which pushed around 100 million people into hunger,was not so much a result of a food shortage as of a market volatility —with causes going far beyond supply and demand — that sent pricesthrough the roof and sparked riots in several countries. Economics canhit food supply...