Most retailers agree that sustainability will be a key competitive advantage in the future. Unfortunately, there is a wide gap between their ambitions and reality.
A growing mismatch between supply and demand could erode the profits of the entire food industry within four decades. Global demand for agricultural production is expected to grow by 70 percent by mid‑century and the global average per capita caloric intake is projected to increase by about 40 percent. The problem is that global food production already utilizes about 50 percent of the arable land surface available and the global agricultural sector already consumes about 70 percent of the freshwater available for human use.
