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Food Security
Influenced by prominent English economist Thomas Malthus (1766
–
1834), people in the nineteenth century began to fear that the planet Earth might not produce enough food for its growing population. Yet it turns out that Malthus was wrong. Although the world's population grew from 1 billion (in 1804) to 6 billion (in 1999), a global food shortage failed to materialize. Agricultural machinery, artificial fertilizers, and improved seeds were among the many products that were invented or developed to help accommodate the growing population.
Of course, now as it was then, there are many hungry people in the world. Living mainly in the
developing countries
, a third of the ...