Responsible production and enough food for 10 billion people in 2050 We have asked five professionals to open the IFAJ Congress 2022 with concise talks based on the congress theme (see page 31). The idea is to introduce the 20 excursions that comprise approximately 50 visits over the coming five days – in addition to the activities here at the conference centre. I 1950, the human population was 2.5 billion. Today it is almost eight billion and in 2050 it is expected to be 10 billion – a quadrupling in 100 years. We have invited professionals from the Danish food cluster to tell us of their ideas related to ensuring climatically, environmentally and economically sustaina - ble global food production and food security. Danish farmers produce food that could feed its own population of just un - der six million people three times. Besides supplying the domestic market, the Danish food cluster exports products and services to the tune of 170 billion DKK, corresponding to 15 percent of total exports. Denmark’s GDP is approx - imately 2,400 billion DKK. 1.00 euro = 7.46 DKK, 1.00 USD = 6.57 DKK (as per 10 January 2022). The Danish parliament (Folketinget) has decided that Denmark must re - duce its greenhouse gas emissions by 70 percent by 2030 and be completely climate neutral in 2050. The large Danish agribusinesses that are owned by farmers have collaborated with other parts of the food cluster to take up the 4 challenge. Is the scenario realistic or utopian? What effect will the climate efforts and their inherent costs mean with regard to consumer prices and ex - ports? Henning Otte Hansen Research, meat, milk, crops, and technology • Senior adviser Henning Otte Hansen, University of Copen - hagen, looks at Danish agriculture from an international perspective. Jais Valeur Truels Damsgaard Henrik Stiesdal Henrik Damholt Jørgensen • Jais Valeur, Group CEO at Danish Crown, and Hen - rik Damholt Jørgensen, CEO at the Danish Dairy Board, account for how the meat and dairy sec - tors, that are both important players on the glob- al market, view the challenges and possibilities. • Truels Damsgaard, CEO at DLF Seeds, that has a 35 percent share of the global market in grass and clover seed, relates how plant breeding and sustainable and resourceefficient crop production can contribute to the goals. • Henrik Stiesdal, inventor and owner of Stiesdal A/S, and with a past as front runner in the wind turbine sector, de- scribes why he sees pyrolysis as an important tool for a greener and CO 2 -neutral agriculture.
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