Global grain production outpaced population growth, and Mr Borlaug won the Nobel peace prize in 1970 for saving hundreds of millions of lives.
In the 1940s and 1950s, by extending the trends of population growth and food production, it was scientific fact that the world was on a collision course with massive starvation.
These shocks devastated the population and sharply reduced production.
For example, a company you may know best for manufacturing lawnmowers and tractors has a much bigger mission, aimed squarely at global challenges and opportunities: the impact of population growth on food production, and growing affluence in developing countries leading to greater urbanization, more infrastructure, improved housing and food choices.
Zambia's unwise nationalisation of the mines in 1969 (as advised by the best of British development economists) may have contributed to declining copper production but population pressures, shifts in the terms of trade since the 1970s and a burden of debt to the West that originated then in recycled petro-dollars have contributed massively to the impoverishment of the country.
But if the population stays flat, food production would have to rise by only a quarter.
Norway is salting away a big chunk of its oil income in a State Petroleum Fund to help pay the pensions of its ageing population when oil and gas production tails off.
Second is People and Power, which provides data in separate subsections on population change, communications and energy production.
They have tried drought and famine, but world food production continues to outpace population, despite warmer temperatures than 100 years ago.
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Two hundred years ago one of the pioneers of modern economics, Thomas Malthus, was warning that population was growing faster than food production and the only remedy, if you are willing to accept a lot of dead people as a remedy, would be that population would eventually be held in check by famine.
The business depends on exports for 50% of its business, and the other 50% may not be so secure given that a stronger yen and an aging population are leading some companies to shift production out of Japan, including the likes of Toyota Motor.
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You can find strong statistics, and useless investment signals from butter production in Bangladesh, the US population of 9 year old kids, and now, in a dramatic breakthrough, relating average penis size to GDP growth, a key measure of stock market returns around the world.
It seemed half the population was engaged in either banking or artisanal food production.
Other researchers point to bio-engineering as a potentially vital solution to the food production challenges posed by a growing world population.
It also examines a range of subjects, including population growth, climate change, altered ecosystems, food production, health, industry and energy, as well as biofuels and the importance of underground aquifers.
Earlier at the Rome summit, U.N. chief Ban Ki-Moon called for a drastic increase in food production to meet the demands of a rising population and stave off a crisis brought about by oil prices, climate change and the impact of the biofuel market.
They added about 1% to population but only about one-third of 1% to production.
In the 1960s, food production was struggling to keep pace with the growing population.
"This new funding will enable us to undertake research that will lead to gains in the sector at a time when food production practices must be refined to accommodate the expanding world population, " he added.
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We feel that the general population who mainly feels disempowered to change things were blamed in the production of the programme and that the REDUCTION of all this waste is the key to its demise.
One is population growth, which will continue to put greater demands on the food production system.
Since that date, the population has tripled, and both the real price of copper and copper production have fallen by half.
Virtually the entire Iraqi population would have a stake in making sure insurgents didn't disrupt oil production, and almost every Iraqi would have an incentive to have a bona fide address at which to collect the checks.
But if population figures are uncertain, Professor Murphy says, this is even more true of food production figures.
The FAO also reports that food production needs to rise by 70% in the next 40 years to meet population growth, while there will be less available land due to urbanization and climate change.
Demand for water has never been as greater, due to population growth and mobility, rising living standards, changes in food consumption, and increased energy production, especially biofuels.
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To meet projected food demand by 2050, when the world's population will have grown from 7 billion now to about 9 billion, it says global agricultural production will need to grow 60% above the level of 2007.
Six more years of Chavez could potentially push production even lower, which, in the context of a growing global, and specifically urban, population, means demand for oil should increase as supply is sliding.
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We are currently faced with unprecedented environmental and global challenges - population growth - that is expected to level at 9 billion people within four decades, requiring a doubling of food production in three decades, and adequate energy for basic needs.
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