Feeding 9 Billion People—A Job for Food Technologists

The world population will be an estimated 9 billion people by 2045. How will we feed them? Of today’s 6 billion, 1 billion are undernourished and another billion are overnourished. In the absence of energy transplantation, those of us in the health and food technology fields need to find a novel solution, one that makes the Green Revolution look like an effort in trivial pursuits.

In my article, “Pasteur’s Quadrant and Malnutrition,” in the January 2001 issue of Nature and the April 2001 issue of…