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Article: Agricultural Challenges in The Next Decade.
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- Agri Marketing
- Article date:
- November 1, 2000
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American agriculture as never faced greater challenges or potentially greater rewards than it faces today. At the beginning of a new century, we have an opportunity to improve the diet and health of every man, woman and child living on the planet and those which will be born in the coming decades.
WORLD POPULATION
First, it is important to understand that the planet's over-population problem has been solved. We are no longer facing a potential doubling of the earth's population in the future. Population increases have slowed from 2 percent per year in 1960 to 1.3 percent in 1998. Births in the third world have dropped from 6.5 per woman to 3.0. This is ...