Feeding the world in the twenty-first century.
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.
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Rockefeller Foundation, New York, New York 10018, USA.
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D000383:Agriculture / Q000639:trends*; D001709:Biotechnology; D018556:Crops, Agricultural / Q000235:genetics; D005502:Food; D005544:Forecasting; D005818:Genetic Engineering; D006801:Humans; D018973:Intellectual Property; D017150:Public Sector