I figure that some of the people on here who tend to slide to the ‘doom and gloom’ on global population and food supply should find this TED Talk interesting:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWC_zDdF74s&feature=g-u-u

It is sadly named nonsense: ‘TristramStuart 2012S 1500k’

I have no idea why.