Kim: The rapidly growing world population is increasing demands of food producers in ways that threaten our natural resources  With more land needed for both food production and urban areas, less land will be available for forests and wildlife habitats  Hampton: You are overlooking the promise of technology
I am confident that improvements in agriculture will allow us to feed the world population of ten billion predicted for 2050 without significantly increasing the percentage of the world' s land now devoted to agriculture
Efforts should be taken to slow the rate of human population growth and to increase the amount of land committed to agriculture.