Feeding the world better by controlling animal diseases

摘要

Reducing the incidence of disease is one of the priorities to be considered in order to feed the world. THE RECENT FOOD riots in several developing countries serve as a painful reminder of current problems in matching food supply and demand worldwide.Competition for the use of agricultural land and forests is increasing in pace with the growth in the world's human population: seven billion today, nine billion by 2050. Agricultural land and forests are threatened by urbanisation and public facilitiessuch as roads and recreational parks, as well as by non-food crops used for biofuels or to produce textiles such as linen, cotton and jute, the latter competing with synthetic textiles that are often derived from petrochemicals.