The world is banking on a major increase in food production, if the dietary needs and food preferences of an increasing …, and increasingly rich, population are to be met. This requires the further expansion of modern agriculture, but modern … agriculture rests on a small number of highly productive crops and its expansion has led to a significant loss of global …

the world's freshwater supplies go to agriculture; in South Asia, agriculture uses over 90%. On-farm greenhouse gas … to "end hunger" and "achieve food security and improved nutrition," while promoting "sustainable agriculture." Lifting …; in Asia, during the same period, on-farm GHG emissions grew by 27%, from 2.5 to 3.2 GtCO2e. All of this puts agriculture …

traditional consumption good and an agricultural sector produces food to sustain contemporaneous population. Agriculture demands …-2010 data on world GDP, population, cropland and technological progress. Introducing random shocks to the evolution of total … factor productivity in agriculture, we show that uncertainty optimally requires more land to be converted into agricultural …