Accretion Tectonics in The Circumpacific Regions

The roundtable "Population and Food in the Early Twenty-First Century: Meeting Future Demand of an Increasing Population" reported here was organized in Feb. 1994, to examine food demand and supply prospects up to 2010 and explore the following questions: what is the projected increase in world population and in the different regions; what is the likely demand for food, cereals in particular; will per capita food production and consumption continue to increase; what are the constraints, such as land and water, on increasing food supply overall and in the different regions; will the increased food supply be available at constant or rising prices; what are the prospects of technological progress, either intensification of known technology or breakthroughs in conventional plant breeding or biotechnology; what are the implications of global warming for future food supply.