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

There are more people who can work to increase the production, but beyond that point there are more people to feed than the production can produce, and that leads to a desire for expansion of the land available for cultivation.

越来越多的人从事工作,生产力得以提高,但是一旦突破临界值,花费就要超过所得了,它导致了对土地扩张的需求

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

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