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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| Format: | Book Chapter |
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International Food Policy Research Institute
2013
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153441 |
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