Dodging a Malthusian bullet in the 21st Century

Luther Tweeten
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Luther Tweeten: Dept. of Agricultural Economics, Ohio State University, 2120 Fyfe Rd., Columbus, OH 43210, Postal: Dept. of Agricultural Economics, Ohio State University, 2120 Fyfe Rd., Columbus, OH 43210

Agribusiness, 1998, vol. 14, issue 1, 15-32

Abstract: The linear historic global crop yield trends found in this study, when extended, trace future rates of yield gain that are well below the recent growth in food demand. Fortunately for consumers, the population growth rates have also fallen after exponential growth, on average, for at least 2 centuries. Global food demand growth may exceed yield growth for several decades, bringing higher commodity prices that are necessary to draw land and other conventional resources into food production © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Date: 1998
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DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1520-6297(199801/02)14:1<15::AID-AGR2>3.0.CO;2-O

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