Feeding the world in the twenty-first century

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 02 Dec 1999 English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Nature, volume 402, pages C55-C58 (issn: 0028-0836, eissn: 1476-4687,

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Authors: G, Conway; G, Toenniessen;

doi: 10.1038/35011545

pmid: 10591226

Feeding the world in the twenty-first century

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Abstract

The gains in food production provided by the Green Revolution have reached their ceiling while world population continues to rise. To ensure that the world's poorest people do not still go hungry in the twenty-first century, advances in plant biotechnology must be deployed for their benefit by a strong public-sector agricultural research effort.

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Rockefeller Foundation
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Keywords

Crops, Agricultural, Public Sector, Agriculture, Intellectual Property, Food, Humans, Genetic Engineering, Biotechnology, Forecasting

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