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The Green Revolution is a warning, not a blueprint for feeding a hungry planet

  • Written by Glenn Davis Stone, Research Professor of Environmental Science, Sweet Briar College
The Green Revolution is a warning, not a blueprint for feeding a hungry planetA farmer spreads fertilizer in a wheat field outside Amritsar, India.Narinder Nanu/AFP via Getty Images

Feeding a growing world population has been a serious concern for decades, but today there are new causes for alarm. Floods, heat waves and other weather extremes are making agriculture increasingly precarious, especially in the Global South.

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