Population growth and food production: issues, problems and prospects

The world food supply and population growth are considered important variables in today's debate on economic and environmental development. This paper looks at the past, present and future trends of population growth and food production. It then concentrates on the present debate to identify whether rapid population growth poses serious problems for the supply and demand of food. This paper argues the need to apply a simultaneous demographic, economic and ecological policy in order to tackle effectively the problem of a population, development and environment triangle.