Agriculture has been transformed
in the past three decades. Output
has increased at nearly twice the
rate of earlier periods, fueled
partly by the developing world's
greatly increased capacity to produce food and partly by changes
in the developed countries. Above
all else, there has been unprecedented technical change in agriculture throughout the world.
Alongside this remarkable and
sometimes underestimated
achievement stands the "world
food problem." Hundreds of millions of people in the developing
world are still without enough
food. Population growth, the effects of which are often exacerbated by a highly unequal income
distribution, has sharply reduced
both the per capita benefits of increased food production and the
associated increases in income per
capita.
This paradoxof poverty in the
midst of plentyhas long plagued
popular understanding of the role
of agriculture in economic development. On the one hand, it has
led to a sense of hopelessness
about the world's malnourished;
on the other, to technological overconfidence. Overanxiety about
food crises has alternated with
taking agriculture for granted,
even neglecting it.Answer:
Explanation:
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Agriculture has been transformed
in the past three decades. Output
has increased at nearly twice the
rate of earlier periods, fueled
partly by the developing world's
greatly increased capacity to produce food and partly by changes
in the developed countries. Above
all else, there has been unprecedented technical change in agriculture throughout the world.
Alongside this remarkable and
sometimes underestimated
achievement stands the "world
food problem." Hundreds of millions of people in the developing
world are still without enough
food. Population growth, the effects of which are often exacerbated by a highly unequal income
distribution, has sharply reduced
both the per capita benefits of increased food production and the
associated increases in income per
capita.
This paradoxof poverty in the
midst of plentyhas long plagued
popular understanding of the role
of agriculture in economic development. On the one hand, it has
led to a sense of hopelessness
about the world's malnourished;
on the other, to technological overconfidence. Overanxiety about
food crises has alternated with
taking agriculture for granted,
even neglecting it.Answer:
Explanation: