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Sustainable food production: Facts and Figures
2013-10-16 09:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: Advances in agricultural science and technology (S&T) have contributed to remarkable increases in food production since the mid-twentieth century. Global agriculture has grown 2.5--3 times over the last 50 years. [1] This has let food production keep pace with human population growth so that, overall, there are enough calories produced per capita. However, progress toward reducing hunger is variable across the world (see figure 1). Hunger and malnutrition affect every aspect of human development...
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