IELTS Listening: 'agriculture' topic

Here's a listening exercise on the same topic as yesterday's reading lesson.

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Answer the following questions:

1. When does the speaker say we will reach peak world population?
2. What number does he give for the current world population?
3. What does he say about organic farming?
4. What other solution does he suggest?
5. Which three cereal crops does he say are the most important?

Comments

[Mehran]

1.2017
2.6.9B
3.more land
4.fertilizer
5.rice,mize

[Rufat]

1.2070
2.7 bln
3. twice landing
4. fertilizer
5. rice, wheat

[James Z.]

2070
6.9 billion
We will need a lot more land.
To triple yields in farming.
rice, wheat and maize

[TAREENA]

1. 2070
2. 6.9 billion
3. Twice more land will be needed
4. More yielding a
5. Rice, wheat and maize

Listen to it 3 times

[Tracie]

2070
6.9 billion
Need 2 times of the land to produce the same amount of the food today
triple yields
Rice, wheat and maize

[Lucy]

2070
6.9 billion
Approximately twice more land needed.(We will need approximately twice as much land to produce the same amount of food as we produce today )
Treble
Wheat,rice,maize

[greeshma]

2070
6.9 billion
more land
fertilizer
rice,wheat,maize

[Ali]

1)2070
2)6.9 billion
3)Need more land
4)Treble yields
5)Rice, wheat and maize

[kirsty]

1. 2070
2. 6.9b
3. need more land (twice as much)
4. trimble yields
5. wheat, rice, maize

[Lucy]

Treble yields

[SA]

2070
6.9 billion
twice land
treble yield
rice wheat maize

[Huseyn]

Where can we find continue of this video?

[Merve]

2070
6.9 billion people
need approximately twice as more land
treble yields in farming
... (couldnt catch)

[San]

1. 2070
2. 6.9 billion
3. not to do organic farming due to need of twice much land as we are farming on now
4. travel yields farming
5. rice, wheat and maize

[Anny]

2050
6.9 B
twice more lands
treble yields
Rice, Wheat and Maize

[Jackie]

2070
Twice of more land
Triple yields
Rice wheat maize

[Calvin Cho]

1. 2070
2. 6.9 billion
3. need a lot more land
4. triple yields
5. rice, wheat and maize

[leopard]

1. 2070
2. 6.9 billion
3. twice more land
4. triple yields
5. rice, wheat

[Pallavi]

1. 2070
2. 6.9 billion
3. more land and fertilizer
4. troubled yield
5. rice, wheat and maize

[Pallavi]

4. terble yields

[Tinh]

1. 2070
2. 6.9 billion people
3. need more land
4. treble yields
5. rice, wheat and maize

[wiwik]

1. 2070
2. 6.9 billion people
3. need more land
4. treble yields farming
5. rice, wheat and maize

[Dina Scherbakova]

It's a difficult one!

1. 2070
2. 6.9 billion people
3. It isn't a solution of the problem because we would need approximately twice as much land to produce the same amount of food as we produce today.
4. treble yields
5. rice, wheat and ?

[Simon]

CORRECT ANSWERS FROM SIMON:

1. in about 2070
2. 6.9 billion
3. We would need approximately twice as much land as we use now
4. Treble (triple) yields from farms (meaning: produce 3 times as much food from crops using the same area of land)
5. Rice, wheat, maize

[Dina Scherbakova]

Simon, I am confused.
Is the answer "2070" the same as the answer "in about 2070"?

[minh tam]

Simon, can you post the script of this exercise?

[Somow]

2070
6.9 BILLION
more land
triple yields
rice,wheat

[Juliana Díaz]

1.Twenty-seventy (2070)
2. 6.9billion
3. Farming as we know it will take twice as much land to produce the same amount of food we produce today.
4.Trimble/travel yields (I couldnt understand what he says)
5. Rice, wheat and maize

I had to listen to it 4 times!!

[Ngoc Thao]

1. 2070
2. 6.9 Million
3. More land
4. Fertilizer
5. Rice, wheat and mize

[Lala]

1. 2070
2. 6.9billion
3. Need twice as much land to produce
4.triple yields
5.rice wheat maze
Checked Wikipedia and found wrong spelling ( maize not maze )
" Maize, wheat, and rice together accounted for 89% of all cereal production worldwide in 2012, and 43% of all food calories in 2009, while the production of oats and triticale have drastically fallen from their 1960s levels."

[Nghia]

1. 2070
2. 6.9 bil
3. Need more land for to feed cattle for manure
4. Triple yields
5. Rice, wheat, maze

[Lala]

Spelling mistake Maize not maze ( can't tell the difference between maize and corn )

[Mariam]

1) 2050
2) 9 billion people
3) we need twice much land to produce the same amount of food we produce today
4) Triple yield
5) -----

[Kelly]

1.2070
2.60.9 billion
3.Organic farming needs fertilizers and more land, but we have no more land
4.Triple yield
5.Rice wheat maze

[Charles]

2070
6.9 billion
requires double land, not a solution
Tremble yield
Rice,wheat and maize

[N]

2070
6.9 billion
need twice land to produce the same amount of foods that have right now
triple yield
rice, wheat, and maize

[Thuy Duong]

1.2070
2.6.9 billion
3. twice landing
4. fertilizer
5. rice, wheat