Breeders and scientists will continue to develop more water-efficient plants and agricultural technologies, such as no-till production.

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What we can be sure is that the growth of sophisticated financial systems will continue to play an important role in fashioning the changes in all of our lives, including funding (often speculatively) the technologies that have transformed our world already from an agricultural to an industrial economy, and are now perhaps shaping the first post-industrial information economy.

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Protectionist tariffs were dismantled, forcing companies to become more competitive through innovation, embracing new technologies and finding new markets a process that culminated in the abolition of the hated system of agricultural subsidies known as the Corn Laws which had inflated the price of bread.

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