Food, Fuel and Climate Change:India’s Trilemma

On 25 September 2015, countries adopted a set of 17 goals to ensure prosperity for all as part of a new sustainable development, commonly known as Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), over the next 15 years. The second goal in the list is: zero hunger. This is not an easy target to achieve. A radical change of the agricultural system is needed to nourish today’s 795 million hungry and the additional 2 billion people expected by 2050 (ref. 1). India is no different; the challenge for the country is its increasing population, limited land, degrading land and changing land use.