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We don't need to double world food production by 2050 – here's why

  • Written by Mitch Hunter, Ph.D. Candidate in Agronomy, Pennsylvania State University

For decades, American agriculture has been a paragon of productivity, churning out record crops at a steady clip. We have exported both our farm products and our way of farming around the world, and global production has risen relentlessly.

Yet now there is concern that even this is not enough. The United Nations projects that the global...

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