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Who needs a greener revolution?
Author(s) -
Rull Valentí
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
embo reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.584
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1469-3178
pISSN - 1469-221X
DOI - 10.1038/embor.2010.116
Subject(s) - business , green revolution , natural resource economics , lead (geology) , risk analysis (engineering) , microbiology and biotechnology , economics , biology , agriculture , ecology , paleontology
To meet the challenge of producing sufficient food for 9 billion people by 2050, many have proposed a new green revolution. However, Valentí Rull questions if this is a viable solution to alleviate hunger in the long term and whether it could lead to undesired and potentially disastrous consequences.