Feeding the Cities

McKinsey has been releasing some interesting work on their projections about the future urban world recently.  

Their research concludes that by 2025 - 600 cities will contribute 62% of global growth and 2,000 cities will account for 75% of global economic growth.

Further more, the world's big powerful cities will be in East Asia, and some of the  big powerful cities in the current advanced economies will decline in significance:

You will notice that a lot of the big future cities of the world - as ranked by their GDP - will be in China.

I was pleased to see Bangkok there too (I love Bangkok!).

In Australia - Sydney will hang in there as one of the top 60 cities of the world  - but Melbourne won't.

Thinking about this, I can't help thinking about how these big future cities are going to feed and power themselves.

The FAO releases its Food Price Index reports regularly.  The February 2011 report released on 3rd March showed that global food prices are at the highest level recorded since the FAO commenced their data series:

I say that food, energy and water assets (FEW) hold the key to future prosperity!  Watch to see where the Chinese are investing - they are patient long term strategic investors.  And hunt for undervalued FEW assets around the world.

These are exciting times as we work to feed the world's cities - with vision, innovation and tenacity!