Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.
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People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change.
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.
People need to realize how powerful the transformation of soil can be.
If women had equal access to fertilizer and modern farm machinery, developing countries would produce between 2.5-percent and 4-percent more food.
We can produce more per acre on a fifth of the fuel as the industrial food system.
To affordably feed the next billion people, we must have higher-yielding crops with even greater nutritional value. America should be at the vanguard of the innovative advances that will make this happen.
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.
The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
A lot of crops depend on labor, but they're done by farmers that don't communicate with one another. They're never in the same room together.
If everybody switched to organic farming, we couldn't support the earth's current population - maybe half.
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