That affects the economy. In rural communities, if the population is always sick, they can't work in the fields and production suffers.

VOA: standard.2009.04.25

Putting them to work improving food production could help reduce Haiti's food shortages.

VOA: standard.2010.03.30

In 1944,when many experts warned of mass starvation in developing nations where populations were expanding faster than crop production, Borlaug began work at a Rockefeller Foundation-funded project in Mexico to increase wheat production by developing higher-yielding varieties of the crop.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13