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  • Title: World grain production losing momentum with 90 million new mouths to feed. Mr. Lester Brown.
    Journal: Asian Forum Newsl; 1996; ():4-5. PubMed ID: 12292045.
    Abstract:
    As global population size and wealth in Asia grow, demand for food will exceed available supplies. Subsequent increases in food prices will make it very difficult for the world's poor to survive. Riots over food are possible, leading to political instability widespread and serious enough to undermine economic progress. Food scarcity results from the conflict between expanding human demand for food and some of the earth's natural limits, including the sustainable yield of ocean fisheries, aquifers which supply irrigation water, and the physiological limits of crop varieties to fertilizer use. The oceanic fish catch per person has fallen 11% since 1989. The world's farmers for the first time in history cannot depend upon the world's fishermen to expand global food supply. Deforestation, soil erosion, climate change, and the loss of crop land to industrialization and urbanization are responsible for the decline in land-based food production. Achieving an acceptable balance between food and people may depend more upon family planners than upon fishermen and farmers.
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