George Steinmetz

By the year 2050, it is estimated that the world’s population will increase to almost ten billion people, and with the rapidly increasing wealth in China and Latin America we will have to double the global food supply. National Geographic asked George to take a look at the way industrialized agriculture will meet this growing demand. He went to Brazil where forest is rapidly being converted to farmland, to the United States and Japan where a mature food industry is seeking ways to increase efficiency, and to China where industrialization is both increasing demand for food and removing farmland from food production.