More than 150 Nobel and World Food prize laureates signed an open letter calling for immediate ramping up of food production before an impending world hunger catastrophe.

Collapse related because rice and wheat production have begun to decline around the world. Instead of a decline they in fact need to be ramping up by 50% to 70% over the next two decades just to meet current needs.

This is happening because of us:

Soil erosion, land degradation, biodiversity loss, water shortages, conflict, government policies that hold back agricultural innovation are to blame.

We’re to blame.

“Temperature rises are expected to be most extreme in countries with already low productivity, compounding existing levels of food insecurity.”

“The world was “not even close” to meeting future needs, the letter said, predicting humanity faced an “even more food insecure, unstable world” by mid-century unless support for innovation was ramped up internationally.”

“With 700 million food-insecure people today, and the global population expected to rise by 1.5 billion by 2050, this leaves humanity facing a grossly unequal and unstable world. We need to channel our best scientific efforts into reversing our current trajectory, or today’s crisis will become tomorrow’s catastrophe.”