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🌅 Today’s stat: 56%
Sunrise Stat
January 29, 2025
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WHAT TO KNOW
With the global population expected to reach nearly 10 billion by 2050, the U.N. projects the world will need to produce 56% more calories from crops to meet the increased food demand. The U.N. projects the global demand for animal-based foods (milk and meat) will be even greater, rising by 68% by 2050.
WHY IT MATTERS
To meet the demand, global food production will need to become more efficient. If today’s levels of production efficiency remain constant through 2050, meeting the global food demand would require clearing most of the world’s remaining forests, wiping out thousands of species and releasing enough greenhouse gas emissions to exceed the 1.5°C and 2°C goals in the 2015 Paris Agreement.
CONNECT THE DOTS
Investors in the U.S. have paid attention to the coming rise in food demand, holding $16.5 billion of American farmland at the end of the third quarter of last year, more than double the value held at the end of 2020 ($7.4 billion) and eight times more than the amount held in 2008 ($1.8 billion). The value held by investors today is still a small percentage (less than 0.5%) of the overall $4 trillion market.