A seventy percent increase is needed in food production in the forthcoming decades

A new large global food crisis may hit the world again. Subsidies and custom duties play an important role in its development. These subsidies and custom duties distort the global balance of supply and demand – said the director of UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

Jacques Diouf stressed that the investments should be expanded because of the global population continues to grow. “in the next 40 years the global agricultural production should be increased by 70, in the developing countries by 100 percent – reports Világgazdaság Online.