Published: January 18th, 2024,
Last updated: May 28th, 2025

Humanity’s survival has always depended on whether the population or agricultural productivity grows faster. In most parts of the world, agricultural productivity has increased faster over the past 100 years. This is one of the main reasons we can feed eight billion people today. However, population growth is far exceeding agricultural productivity on the African continent. Many countries are trying to compensate for this by importing food. But this is not a viable long-term model.