Have advances in food production helped?

A2A. Theoretically, increase in food yields should reduce the number of people starving. However, even if the world currently produces enough food to feed everyone, more than a billion go hungry everyday despite fewer proportion of the world population starving than ever before. read more

GMOs have mostly helped to decrease labor costs and stabilize outputs. Production also probably isn't even the biggest driver in food security. Trade is probably more important, and I say that as somebody who works on the production end of things. read more

We asked experts Wayne Parrot, PhD, Crop and Soil Scientist at the University of Georgia, and Stephen Baenziger, PhD, Agronomy and Horticulture Professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, for some thoughts on how technology has helped agriculture production. read more

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