Slowing productivity growth puts global ag sustainability and food security at risk

For the fourth straight year, global agricultural productivity growth isn’t accelerating fast enough to sustainably feed the world in 2050, according to a report by the Global Harvest Initiative (GHI) released last week at the World Food Prize in Des Moines.

GHI’s eighth annual “Global Ag­­ricultural Productivity Report (2017 GAP Report): A World of Productive Sustainable Agri­culture” warns that unless this trend is reversed, the world may not be able to sustainably...