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2013.
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| Summary/Abstract |
FOOD SECURITY ISSUES have been the focus of the Group of Twenty since about 2005. Then it became clear that the era of continually rising food prices and growing farm output - an era lasting almost 50 years - was over. Despite the impressive results of the Green Revolution (from 1961 to 2000, global food production increased from 800 million to 2.2 billion tons), the average yield of major grain crops has been steadily declining - for wheat and rice from 2.5-3 % to 1%. Moreover, these phenomena were accompanied by steep jumps in food prices in 2007-2008 and 2010-2012. According to an estimate by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), in 2010-2012, nearly 870 million people were chronically undernourished and the number of hungry people in the world remained unacceptably high.
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