Selected for the Global Economic Symposium 2011
It is becoming increasingly difficult to satisfy the rising global demand for agricultural products in a sustainable manner. Climate change, a rising world population with changing diets, increasing urbanization and industrialization, and a rising production of non-food crops all raise the global demand for agricultural land. How can we bring population growth, food consumption patterns, climate patterns, and land use into a sustainable equilibrium? What international trade arrangements, environmental policies, nutritional trajectories and land use patterns are required for this purpose?

