Feed the World
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Feed the World
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With the United Nations' resolution to eliminate world hunger by 2030 and the globe's population heading towards nine billion, the agriculture industry needs to increase livestock production from the same, or less, land. Livestock uses the most agricultural land (80% including grazing land and cropland for feed). Africa and Asia are the continents with the largest share of the world's uncultivated land, but attempts to develop and expand current capacity in order to meet the growing food demand are halted by deadly killers in the form of viruses, bacterial and protozoan parasites. As such, this area of research is hugely important to ensuring the availability of food for the world’s population.
The ‘Feed the World’ collection brings together articles published across the journal portfolio, focussing on food security, and agriculture and livestock diseases that have an economic impact on humans and animals. Guest edited by Alison Mather (Quadram Institute) and Nigel French (University of New Zealand) for Microbial Genomics; Colin Crump (University of Cambridge) for Journal of General Virology, and Sharon Brookes (Animal Plant Health Agency) for Journal of Medical Microbiology.
This collection is now accepting submissions via any participating journal. Please indicate that your submission is part of the ‘Feed the World’ collection.