Agriculture and the Environment

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This paper examines the economic and ecological advantages and disadvantages of relying on a. a small number of genetic variations of major crops and livestock, b. genetically modified foods, and c. perennial food crops in agricultural practices today. Reasons for support and/or opposition of each are outlined particularly in the developed versus developing countries."

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"Over this century it will become even more difficult to meet the basic requirements that the people of the world need to survive. A balanced diet, clean water and shelter are the basic requirements that a great part of the world's population is struggling to meet. The exponential growth of the world's population, the fragile environment, the overuse of land for grazing and crop production and pollution and just some the causes that have brought about a crisis resulting in the fact that in "1996 an estimate 840 million of the world's people did not get enough food to thrive" (Raven et al., 1998). "

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