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Anti-poverty strategies must prioritise hunger: Swaminathan [1]

Gargi Parsai

NEW DELHI: To meet the challenge of food demand of a growing population in developing countries, cereal yields will have to be increased by 40 per cent and net irrigation water requirements by40-50 per cent. An additional 100200 million hectares of land may be required to meet double the current food demand by 2050, agriculture scientist M.S. Swaminathan said on Friday.

Publication Date: 
20/09/2008
Hindu (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Food Stress [3], Poverty [4], Anti-Poverty Programmes [5], M S Swaminathan [6]

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[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/anti-poverty-programmes
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/m-s-swaminathan