The document discusses several key challenges facing global agriculture by 2050 including: - The global population is expected to increase by 42% by 2050, requiring food production to double to keep pace with demand - Agriculture currently uses 70% of global fresh water supplies and over 50% of habitable land - Innovations that increase crop yields, like irrigation, will be needed to sustainably meet rising demand for food while protecting resources like water.

1. Protecting Today’s Investments For
Tomorrow’s Innovations
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3. The world grows enough food
to feed its population.
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4. • The world grows enough food
to feed its population.
• To eradicate hunger, people
in the developing world need
to be able to access food by
growing it or purchasing it.
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5. The global population will increase
by 42 percent between now and 2050.
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6. • The global population will increase
by 42 percent between now and 2050.
• The world’s population is expected
to increase from about
6.6 billion people today
to 9.3 billion by 2050.
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7. Agriculture must increase food
production by 42 percent to keep pace.
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8. • Increasing demand for food, fuel and fiber in
developing countries, combined with other
factors, actually requires agricultural food
production to double by 2050.
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9. Global agriculture uses
50 percent of our fresh water.
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10. • Global agriculture
actually uses 70
percent of our fresh
water, and in the
developing world, that
percentage is closer to
95 percent.
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11. Irrigation increases the yield of
most crops by 50 percent.
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12. • Actually, irrigation boosts the
yield of most crops by
100 percent to 400 percent.
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13. Agriculture uses 55 percent
of habitable land.
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14. • Agriculture uses
55 percent of habitable land.
• And the percentage is
growing as developing
countries cut down forests to
grow more food and other
agricultural commodities.
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15. Agriculture contributes 70 percent
of global greenhouse gas emissions.
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16. • Agriculture actually contributes 13.5 percent,
which is still substantial.
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17. • Identifying agricultural challenges in protecting
the environment
• Tracing how scientific advancements impact the
world
• Understanding how each of us
will contribute to the future
health of our planet
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