The world has enough food to feed everyone yet many poor people are malnourished. Siwa Msangi of the International Food Policy Research Institute explains what is going wrong and how the world could feed a future population of nine billion people.
Category: Alternative Finance
Most of the world’s energy use and carbon emissions come from cities. By improving efficiency, transportation, and urban planning, the world’s biggest cities could turn from polluters into a vital part of the solution to climate change - and better places to live.
Category: Climate And Business
From 2008, more than half of the world's population will live in cities. Most megacities suffer from pollution and overpopulation. Some well-run cities, however, could be role models for an increasingly urban world.
Category: Urbanization
Since 2008, the majority of people on Earth is living in cities and towns. By 2030, over 4.6 billion people will be urbanites. How we cope with the social and environmental challenges of our urban future will shape the 21st century.
None of the troubling predictions about overpopulation and global starvation have come to pass. So should we still be worried about too many people on Earth?
Category: Population Growth
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