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Most of the increase in agricultural production in the developing countries in the years following the Second World War resulted from clearing new land and extending traditional farming to increasingly marginal soils. As a result, by the early 1960s, virtually all land that could be readily brought into production was being farmed. With only marginal increase in agricultural production and continued rapid population growth, famine began to occur with increasing frequency in developing countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa. That the threat of large-scale starvation has been averted must be largely credited to the plant research institutes CIMMYT (Centro International de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo) in Mexico and IRRI (International Rice Research Institute) in the Philippines.
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Bosemark, N.O. (1993). The need for a comprehensive plant breeding strategy. In: Hayward, M.D., Bosemark, N.O., Romagosa, I., Cerezo, M. (eds) Plant Breeding. Plant Breeding Series. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-1524-7_31
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