Celebrating agriculture this World Food Day

As we acknowledge World Food Day on October 16, this is an ideal opportunity to shed light on how we feed the world today and how we will feed the world in the future.

Here’s the challenge we face:

• The most important driver of future food demand is the world’s growing global population. which has added approximately 2 billion people since the start of the century, and the United Nations projects we will add another approximately 1.5 billion by 2050.
• Today, with a population of approximately 8 billion we struggle to adequately feed the world. In 2023, about 2.3 billion[1] people were moderately or severely food insecure, meaning that they did not have regular access to adequate food. The World Food Program also estimates that approximately 300 million people face chronic hunger.

While the amount we consume has continued to increase, global yield growth (how much is being produced per acre) has not kept pace, in recent years. Here’s Nutrien’s Mark Tully, Senior Manager of Market Research, explaining the situation:

What it comes down to is that farmers around the world will need to continue increasing crop production for us to feed the world. And they need our help.

For us at Nutrien, the role we play in supporting farmers is clear. Feeding the Future is the reason we come to work each day and is grounded in helping farmers to increase crop production. Nobody knows farming better than farmers. Nobody knows farmers better than us.

[1]https://www.fao.org/americas/news/news-detail/sofi-2024/en#:~:text=The%20report%20highlights%20that%20access,amid%20the%20COVID%2D19%20pandemic.