Feeding the world in the twenty-first century

Gordon Conway and Gary Toenniessen
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Gordon Conway: Rockefeller Foundation
Gary Toenniessen: Rockefeller Foundation

Nature, 1999, vol. 402, issue 6761, C55-C58

Abstract: The gains in food production provided by the Green Revolution have reached their ceiling while world population continues to rise. To ensure that the world's poorest people do not still go hungry in the twenty-first century, advances in plant biotechnology must be deployed for their benefit by a strong public-sector agricultural research effort.

Date: 1999
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