ABSTRACT
For nearly 40 years the world production of grain has risen by more than 2% a year, but it declined to scarcely 1% a year in the 1990s. This is a level that is markedly below the 1.5% annual increase in the world’s population.4 The 1997 world
Chapter 3 Environmental Degradation and Food Security
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