The people of the world get 75 percent of their sustenance–either directly, or indirectly as meat–from four crops: maize (corn), wheat, rice and soybeans. The world’s rising population–now predicted by the United Nations to reach 10.1 billion by century’s end –has been fed thanks to rising yields of all four of these crops during the past century.
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