What Will It Take to Feed Ten Billion People Sustainably?

By Sanjiv Goyal Featuring Manoj Kumar

In this article, you will learn about:

• Trends in the future of food production
• How the food industry will have to adapt to keep up with population growth
• Entrepreneurial opportunities in the food industry
• Sustainable animal protein alternatives
• Why localization is the next frontier of the food supply chain

It’s hard to believe that it’s 2020 and people are still starving. What do we have to do to correct world hunger and get nutritionally rich food to everyone who needs it? I sat down with Manoj Kumar, CTO of Ripple Foods, to find out.

Ripple produces non-dairy milk alternatives made from pea proteins. The company is on a mission to minimize carbon emissions. They are cutting out the middlemen (cows) and conserving water by using crops that don’t require vast amounts of irrigation (here’s looking at you almonds).

Kumar engaged me in a fascinating discussion about the problems the food industry is facing today in terms of feeding the portions of the population that are starving and sustainably keeping up with the projected population growth to over 10 billion people by the year 2050.

Sustainably Feeding the Hungry

The primary goal when attempting to solve world hunger is feeding people. The top priority has been getting food…