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Further Reading

Evans, L.T., Feeding the Ten Billion: Plants and Population Growth (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998).

Halweil, Brian, "Can Organic Farming Feed Us All?" Worldwatch, May/June 2006.

King, John, Reaching for the Sun: How Plants Work (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997).

Leigh, G.J., The World's Greatest Fix: A History of Nitrogen and Agriculture ( Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2004).

Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology, http://pewagbiotech.org/. Research and recommendations from a now-complete project on issues arising from advances in agricultural biotechnology.

Jennifer Thomson, Seeds For the Future: The Impact of Genetically Modified Crops on the Environment (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007).

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