Can we feed 9 billion?

By end of this century, our population predicted to grow to nine to ten billion from 6.5 billion now. In this way, it will be essential to find solution that how we grow food, how we have better fertilizer, how protect food on it's way to consumer etc...

Basically, I try to eat organically but my organic is not so strict. There are couple of reasons. First of all, organic and non-organic doesn't have any special nutritious benefit. Secondly, to grow vegetable need to protect from all pests. In this sense, organic vegetable need fur more pesticide than non organic one. When I was kids, my family use to order vegetable to one farmer who deliver to our home once a week depend on what he have in the field at that moment. We needed to go to help him at least once a month to the field. I remember this man also told me, even organic need to have pesticide to protect veg. We shouldn't be hysteric about too much, just need to know how to use it fairly. Finally, organic certificate is helpful if we don't know where a product come from but there are so many local producer who make their product organically but doesn't have certificate.

The reason why I pick up this topic today is that I went to lecture 'Can we feed 9 billion' in RSC. The lecture was specialized in relationship between food and chemical. However, a lecturer also said that to find the way we have enough food for every person on this planet is related to politics. There was one interesting article in Observer one month ago which made me to go this lecture. 'So much food. So much hunger'. Question was how can so many people be hungry when farmers produce enough food at least in theory? The answers are complex and involve everything from American farm politics and African corruption to war, poverty, climate change and drought. Activist say that some of tools for success are within reach provided the financing and political will persist; those tools include seeds fine-turned to local conditions, fertilizer and better road and other infrastructure improvement.

In same article, they referred a word from Dr, Borlaug, plant scientist who created high-yielding wheat varieties to stave of famine, who was awarded the Nobel peace prize in 1970. 'World peace will not be build on empty stomachs or human misery. I truly agree and wish we will find a way to solve this problem. So much food but so much hunger is not what we wish for.