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Growing Food for a Growing Population

Randall Weiseman February 18, 2009 General

Octavio Ramirez
Food production will have to increase considerably in order to feed the continually growing world population and the U.S. is one of only a few countries equiped for this challenge, this according to Octavio Ramirez, Head of Agricultural & Applied Economics at the University of Georgia. Ramirez says
that climate change, and water issues may have a big impact on the agricultural ability of other nations.

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