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Yara is committed to helping find solutions to major global challenges. Some of these imply closing critical global gaps between future demands and available resources: More food has to be produced for a growing world population – with limited land and water available, and with a dire need to apply crop nutrients to improve agricultural productivity.
Food security and climate change are two major global challenges relevant to Yara's core business and closely connected to our major market, the world agricultural community. We have developed solutions based on our extensive agricultural expertise, and offer our knowledge to help solve these challenges.
One global gap is at the very core of Yara’s business and knowledge: The alarming gap between growing food demand and stagnating crop yields. An estimated 70 percent increase in global food demand is expected by 2050 – before factoring in increasing production of biofuels. Meanwhile, annual agricultural productivity growth has slowed down.
In addition to this yield gap, there is a resource gap emerging: An estimated doubling of total world agricultural output by 2050 has to be achieved without adding significant amounts of new farmland, while possibly coping with less water than today. Also, with serious soil depletion in several regions, more nutrients must be added.
Read more about these issue's in Yara's "Food & Climate" magazine.
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The major global gaps – and Yara’s response to these challenges – are presented in Yara´s Food & Climate magazine.
Feeding the Future(PDF, 5.8MB)
Magazine Notes(PDF, 45KB)
Magazine Sources(PDF, 71KB)
