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We Have Six-and-a-half-billion People On The Planet, Going Rapidly Towards Seven. We're Going To Need A Lot Of Inventiveness About How We Use Water And Grow Crops.

We Need To Continue To Decrease The Growth Rate Of The Global Population; The Planet Can't Support Many More People.

We Wouldn't Think Of Going To Our Doctor And Saying 'treat Me The Way Doctors Treated People In The 19th Century', And Yet That's What We're Demanding In Food Production.

New Molecular Methods That Add Or Modify Genes Can Protect Plants From Diseases And Pests And Improve Crops In Ways That Are Both More Environmentally Benign And Beyond The Capability Of Older Methods.

Even As The Population Doubled From Three To Six Billion, We Managed To Race Ahead With All Kinds Of Technological And Scientific Events In Agriculture - From Using More Fertilizers To Mechanization To Advanced Plant Breeding.