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The beginning of this chapter provides a view on how many people lack adequate nutrition globally. It considers the causes of hunger and the possibilities for feeding a growing human population as standards of living increase worldwide, requiring even more food production. The science behind increasing crop production is explained, the possibility of increasing production adequately considered, and the political obstacles to ending hunger.

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  1. Division of Biology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, USA

    Walter Dodds

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Dodds, W. (2019). Hunger. In: The World's Worst Problems . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30410-2_5

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