From the report: In Creating a Sustainable Food Future, we explore a menu of potential solutions that could sustainably
close the food gap by 2050. Each solution contributes to—or at least does not undermine—five key sustainability criteria: advancing rural development,
generating benefits for women, protecting ecosystems, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and avoiding overuse and pollution of freshwater.
Solutions on the menu fall into three categories: 1. Solutions that help to close the food gap by reducing growth in food consumption in ways
that advance or safeguard human well-being; 2. Solutions that help to close the food gap by increasing food production on existing agricultural
land; and 3. Solutions that do not necessarily produce more food but reduce the environmental impact of food production, particularly greenhouse
gas emissions.