BoA: Food Security Poses Multi-Trillion Dollar Opportunity For Investors

Global food security is one of the most important issues facing policymakers all over the world today. As the globe’s population continues to expand, but the volume of arable land remains constant, farmers are going to have to come up with increasingly inventive ways of crop yield and farm output, doing more with less.

According to research from McKinsey & Company, the food and agribusiness industry represents is worth over $5 trillion and accounts for 10% of global consumer spending, 40% of employment, and 30% of greenhouse-gas emissions. Agribusiness is also the largest global consumer of water (another debate for another day).

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If current trends continue, by 2050, caloric demand will increase by 70%, and crop demand for human consumption and animal feed...