Agronomy and Horticulture Department
Date of this Version
2013
Citation
PNAS, May 21, 2013, vol. 110, no. 21, 8345–8348
Abstract
In a world of 9.5 billion people, global demand for food, fiber, and biofuels has to be met with minimal possible increases in land, water, fossil fuels, and the minerals used to produce fertilizers (1–4). The problem is debated at three levels: first, that agriculture will not be able to produce enough because it will come up against both biophysical and environmental limits that restrict yields (3, 5, 6); second, that the need to expand and intensify agriculture will destroy the broader environmental values of forests, wetlands, marine systems, and their associated biodiversity (7–9); and third, that there are institutional obstacles to the diffusion and adoption of the innovations that could solve these problems.
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Copyright 2013 Sayer and Cassman