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It's time for a second Green Revolution

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National Post

One of humanity’s biggest achievements in the last century was making a huge increase in food production. From 1900 to 2000, there was a six-fold increase in crop harvests while the global population increased less than four-fold, meaning that on average people today have around 50 per cent more food available than their great, great grandparents. Read the second part of the 12-piece series in National Post (Canada).

The article has been published in more than 30 newspapers across the world, including The Nation (Kenya), Philippine Daily Inquirer, Bangkok Post (Thailand), Business Day (South Africa), The Jordan Times, The Economic Times (India), The Australian, New Times (Rwanda), AllAfrica, Milenio (Mexico), La Tercera (Chile), La Prensa (Nicaragua), El Comercio (Peru), Al-Ahram (Egypt), An-Nahar (Lebanon), Tempi (Italy), Portfolio (Hungary), Berlingske (Denmark), and Dhaka Tribune (Bangladesh).