This is an updated version - with extension of projections to 2050 - of the FAO study World Agriculture: Towards 2015/30 published in 2003. It finds that the future world population may be lower than earlier projections indicated, with the end of world population growth occurring around the middle of this century. Over the next 50 years world agriculture may therefore be transiting to a future when population growth will no longer be the major driving force for further growth in world food demand and production.
This has consequences for the rate at which further pressures on land and water resources and the wider environment will increase. The study presents prospective developments in food demand and consumption and possible implications for nutrition and undernourishment, and deals with production, consumption and trade, in terms of the main commodity sectors and aggregate agriculture.

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