Agricultural productivity: A changing global harvest

Vista sencilla de ítem
dc.creatorFuglie, Keith O.
dc.creatorNin-Pratt, Alejandro
dc.date2013
dc.date2024-10-01T13:56:13Z
dc.date2024-10-01T13:56:13Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T14:58:22Z
dc.descriptionIn 1961 the world was feeding 3.5 billion people by cultivating 1.37 billion hectares of land. A half century later, the world population had doubled to 7 billion while land under cultivation increased by only 12 percent to 1.53 billion hectares. How, then, did agricultural production triple? By increasing productivity. By getting more output from existing resources, global agriculture has grown, proving wrong past concerns that the world’s population would exceed its food supply. In fact, at the global level, the long-run trend since at least 1900 has been one of increasing food abundance: in inflation-adjusted dollars, food prices fell by an average of 1 percent per year over the course of the 20th century (Figure 1). But then, over the past decade, something changed.
dc.formatapplication/pdf
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/153441
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/90858
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Institute
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceFuglie, Keith O.; and Nin-Pratt, Alejandro. 2013. Agricultural productivity: A changing global harvest. In 2012 Global Food Policy Report Chapter 2. Pp. 14-25. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/153441
dc.subjectfood prices
dc.subjectfood supply
dc.subjectfood wastes
dc.subjectagricultural production
dc.titleAgricultural productivity: A changing global harvest
dc.typeBook Chapter

Archivos

Colecciones

Instituto Internacional de Investigación sobre Políticas Alimentarias (IFPRI)