Green Revolution
topic on 1 show · 2 statements across 1 episodes
2 statements about Green Revolution, every show
Grunwald: Global agricultural and livestock yields have tripled since the 1960s
“Basically, we've tripled yields since the 19 sixties. So we're producing three times as much food, as much calories, as much protein per acre. You know, our livestock efficiency has also increased by a factor of three.”
Grunwald: Feeding 2050 Population Needs Two Indias' Worth of New Land
“If, even if we continue to increase farm yields at the same rate they've increased throughout the Green Revolution we're gonna need another two India's worth of land, which essentially means, you know, gonna bye-bye Amazon and Congo rainforests, you know, very…”