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The POPULATION REFERENCE BUREAU and The INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE THE 1 ST ANNUAL MALTHUS LECTURE MEAT
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@MISC{Cohen_thepopulation,
author = {Joel E. Cohen and Joel E. Cohen},
title = {The POPULATION REFERENCE BUREAU and The INTERNATIONAL FOOD POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE THE 1 ST ANNUAL MALTHUS LECTURE MEAT},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
By the end of the last Ice Age, humans revolutionized eating meat by domesticating animals for food. Today, the populations of animals humans create to eat (including more than 1 billion cattle and 18 billion chickens in 2008) outweigh and outnumber the 6.7 billion humans. Of the estimated 2.3 billion metric tons of cereals grown worldwide in the crop year 2008-2009, one-third went to feed animals. Dr. Cohen surveys some of the strong demographic, economic, environmental, and cultural interactions between human and livestock populations. Looming in the background is a question: If today’s world cereal production could feed at least 10 billion people a basic but adequate diet, how does it happen that more than a billion people, more than one person in seven and disproportionately children, are chronically hungry? ABOUT THE AUTHOR
