Food Security: How to Feed an Ever-Hungrier World

The world's farmers face a formidable challenge: how to harvest 70 percent more food by midcentury to feed the swiftly growing population. In a world with one in eight people already hungry, climate change, shrinking farmland and scarce potable water frustrate the task. The problem poses a fundamental threat to economic growth in food-insecure nations. This panel will explore paths to overcoming this insecurity and take on the toughest questions. How can the neediest nations achieve sustainability? What game-changing technologies can swell stagnant crop yields? How will we produce more food without putting land and water resources in peril? How can we increase carbon-dioxide fixation rates and raise the efficiency of our resource use? And which governments, companies and nonprofits are pioneering a food-secure future?