With the global population reaching 9.8 billion by 2050, the demand for animal-based foods is expected to increase by more than 70% of the total demand in 2019. This has posed a great challenge for the agriculture and food industry to provide adequate and nutritious food for the growing population, without negatively affecting the environment.

Autumn is here, and with it comes a windfall of crisp, colorful new insights from Packaged Facts, Simba Information, and The Freedonia Group. This week, analysts dove into a pile of topics that included pet safety, new trends in education, and key rising outdoor living and lawn and garden markets.

Gleb Mytko has written more than 35 industry studies covering a range of topics over his 10+ years with The Freedonia Group, primarily specializing in the global construction and heavy equipment and components markets. He has also contributed to a number of custom research projects, handling primary and secondary research for Russian and Eastern European markets.

All eyes in the scholarly professional publishing industry are on market leader Elsevier to see how the company will react to a decision by of a group of prominent University of California faculty to step away from journal editorial boards until the publisher agrees to restart negotiations with the 10-campus system on a new contract for access to Elsevier’ scholarly journals.

Check out the latest from MarketResearch.com's publishing divisions, including analysis on windows and doors, new Trump administration rollbacks on environmental regulations, Amazon's plans for the Asia/Pacific market, the U.S. private label credit card market, and much more.

These days, retailers are pushing much more than just merchandise. It’s common for sales associates to invite customers to sign up for a private label credit card, also known as a store card, in exchange for a discount on an initial purchase.

The security market is ever-evolving, as manufacturers and service providers in this industry continuously adapt to new global threats and develop products and solutions based on the latest tech innovations.

The Freedonia Group, a division of MarketResearch.com, offers a broad catalog of security research, including forecasts and trend analysis covering a wide range of security technologies and services in the US and across the globe.

With the introduction of agriculture drones and robots, several concerns related to the growth of farm produce can be resolved, including the shifting structure of the agriculture workforce along with the problem of decreasing arable land as compared to the fast-growing population.

The U.S. is the largest medical imaging market globally due to the high disposable income and health insurance of consumers. More than 630 million X-rays, CT & PET scans, MRIs, ultrasounds, and mammographies are performed each year, representing an important part of the healthcare system.

End the week with the latest from The Freedonia Group and Packaged Facts, including fresh insights and analysis on electric bus trends, global tariffs and the countertops industry, and the grocery shopping habits of affluent shoppers, plus a broad look at 5-year growth rates in over 100 subsectors of the U.S. business economy.