The article has conveyed 2020 Vision research to thousands of new readers. According to Rosegrant and Livernash, potential solutions fall into two categories. First, policy reforms, such as offering credit to farmers and reducing subsidies on fertilizers, pesticides, and water, can encourage farmers to expand production in an environmentally sustainable way. Second, new farming practices and technologies, such as using biological controls to fight pests and developing mineral-enriched varieties of the worlds most common food crops, can raise crop yields and quality. Taken together, these steps offer grounds for optimism about food production in the next 25 years.
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