Food systems: perspectives on demographics and affluence, food supply and consumption.
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Food systems: perspectives on demographics and affluence, food supply and consumption.
Global population may double by 2020 but the Malthusian specter of rapid population growth outracing slower increases in production will continue to be a false alarm. A vast array of agricultural technologies have the capacity to increase output 10-fold, perhaps as much as 100-fold. Discovery of a sweetener 54,000 times sweeter than sucrose (cane or beet sugar) indicates the magnitude of prodig...
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عنوان ژورنال: Environmental Health Perspectives
سال: 1990
ISSN: 0091-6765,1552-9924
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.9086201