It's worth to think about who are the ones likely to support a cost-intensive, patent-friendly food system, and who's to pay the price. Feeding 10 billion people is not a question about land or technology, rather about politics, something the authors of this report has yet to grasp.
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.. can be found for example here: ("Food Enough, Land Enough", PDF 2.7MB) http://www.svenskakyrkan.se/default.aspx?di=737980 A recent Swedish report on food security and poverty.
The UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food recently (March 2011) made strong statements that technology is not the solution here, "Agroecology and the right to food": http://www.srfood.org/index.php/en/component/content/article/1-latest-news/1174-report-agroecology-and-the-right-to-food
It's worth to think about who are the ones likely to support a cost-intensive, patent-friendly food system, and who's to pay the price. Feeding 10 billion people is not a question about land or technology, rather about politics, something the authors of this report has yet to grasp.