07/03/14: Feeding the world … ehm … China?; Turkey: Animal feed totalled US$3 billion last year

According to the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI); farmers will need to produce approximately 52 percent more grain and 80 percent more meat by 2050.  This growing demand is due to the ever increasing global world wide population. But the question often raised is whether we are attempting to feed the world or solely feed China - as it represents a substantial amount of the world wide population on its own.

However, by 2050 - it is estimated that the population in China will actually decline.

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Pelleted feed - courtesy Wikipedia

Turkey struggles to meet its own domestic need for animal feed; because of this it was necessary for Turkey to import six billion tonnes of animal feed last year - valued at approximately US$3 billion. Animal feed imports have progressively increased by five-to-10 percent yearly across the last few years; with an estimated need of seven million tonnes needed for import this year alone.

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