Tag: agricultural decoupling

Corn-ucopia

May 20, 2011

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by

mwkruse

in Business, Economic Development, History, Human Progress, Technology (Food & Water), Trends: Economic

Carpe Diem: Corn Yields Have Increased Six Times Since 1940
More Food, Except For That Billion Or So

Apr 1, 2010

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by

mwkruse

in Economic Development, Health and Medicine, Poverty, Technology (Food & Water)

IPS: More Food, Except For That Billion Or So ROME, Mar 31, 2010 (IPS) – While agricultural research has made massive strides over the years in helping the world produce more food from the same amount of land, around one in six people, the 1.02 billion hungry, have not noticed. The populations of wealthier countries…