The Food Race – Pesticides, GMOs and Organic Farming on the Test

Mission Earth, Science 52' 2015 4K

The world’s supply for food becomes more and more imbalanced. One billion people are starving and every second a child dies of hunger and its consequences. At the same time the world’s food production is at its peak level, and the demand for meat is growing not only in the industrial world. How can it be that up to 30% of the world’s harvest is ruined by plant diseases and pests and less than half our harvest ends up on our plate? This film reveals the causes and impacts of this imbalance and tries to find solutions how we can get prepared to feed up to nine billion people in the next 35 years.