Agricultural productivity: A changing global harvest

In 1961 the world was feeding 3.5 billion people by cultivating 1.37 billion hectares of land. A half century later, the world population had doubled to 7 billion while land under cultivation increased by only 12 percent to 1.53 billion hectares. How, then, did agricultural production triple? By inc...

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Autores principales: Fuglie, Keith O., Nin-Pratt, Alejandro
Formato: Capítulo de libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153441

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