[W]hen more than 150 Nobel laureates and World Food Prize winners sign an open letter calling for “planet-friendly moonshot efforts leading to substantial, not just incremental, leaps in food production” — which at the present pace appears almost impossible to meet the enormous challenge of feeding the world by 2050 — the loud and clear warning comes as a timely wake-up call.

“We are not on track to meet the future food needs. Not even close,” the letter has warned.

“As leaders of science and innovation, we ask you to join us in sounding the alarm, raising collective ambitions, and advocating for research moonshots to ensure the world’s food and nutrition security,” the letter concludes.

At a time when the world already produces enough food to meet the requirement of 9.8 billion people by 2050, it only shows that food deficiencies — there are close to 800 million people living in hunger — are not because of any shortfall in production. The food deficiencies are an outcome of faulty policies.

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