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During the next fifty years the world’s population is expected to double. In order to avoid catastrophic famines the world’s food production also must double. Although this is technically possible with present high-input methods, such technology is probably not affordable by poor tropical countries with high population growth. A more environmental friendly, and less demanding but equally productive technology based on time tested, labour intensive, tropical systems must be developed to avoid both famine, landscape deterioration, and biodiversity loss.
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Solbrig, O.T. (1994). Biodiversity and the World’s Food Crisis. In: Struik, P.C., Vredenberg, W.J., Renkema, J.A., Parlevliet, J.E. (eds) Plant Production on the Threshold of a New Century. Developments in Plant and Soil Sciences, vol 61. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1158-4_16
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