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Green Revolution. Brought new crop strains, machinery, pesticides, fertilizers, and other chemicals to world agriculture, which boosted yields dramatically.
Brought new crop strains, machinery, pesticides, fertilizers, and other chemicals to world agriculture, which boosted yields dramatically. -
Foreign Aid dedicated to developing-world agriculture is 20%
Foreign Aid dedicated to developing-world agriculture is 20% -
United Nations
During the mid-1980s, the United Nations helped 9 percent of Pakistani farmesrs in non-irrigated areas invest in metal grain storage containers in order to replace jute bags and mud constructions. Cut farmers losses by up to 70 percent. -
Children in Farming Households
Data from Kampala, Uganda, in the 1990s, suggest that children in farming households were better noursihed than those in non-farming households. -
China lost 15% of its grain harvest
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Milk Losses
The milk losses in East Africa and the Near East amounted to $90 million -
Foreign Aid dedicated to devolping-world agriculture is 3 or 4% (20% in 1980s)
Foreign Aid dedicated to devolping-world agriculture is 3 or 4% (20% in 1980s) -
American Planning Association
The American Planning Association adopted a policy that encourages its members to help build "stonger, sustainable, and more self-reliant" local food systems. -
Homo sapiens become a majority urban species
Food now has to travel further from the farms to the famiies. -
Philippine Government
In the wake of the 2008 food crisis, the government of the Philippinesannounced heavy new investment in rice-drying machinesto address the losses of 25-50 percent suffered by Asian rice growers. -
Zambia Study
This study found out that 96 percent of stored maize samples contained toxic fuminosins, which resulted from the growth of mold. -
National Land Policy
In Kenya, the 2009 National Land Policy has a section on urban agriculture and forestry
