WORLD population has doubled since 1961 but we produce more than 2½ times as much food as we did then. You might well think we’d be on track to meet the Millennium Development Goals of halving poverty, hunger and child mortality by 2015. But we aren’t.
The reason, according to the MA, is that people in developing nations will not be able to escape poverty and hunger because their ecosystems are collapsing around them. In fact, if we continue with business as usual, any progress towards these goals may be short-lived.
“If you focus only on reducing poverty in the short term, you’re going to compromise…
