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agriculture practices, farming, global food, harvest, Institute on the Environment, Study, University of Minnesota
Given the projected future population increases, food distribution is becoming a more prominent issue. How do we make use of existing resources to feed more mouths? And how do we do this in a sustainable way to ensure that the process doesn’t collapse in on itself?
Researchers Deepak Ray and Jonathan Foley, part of the Institute on the Environment (IonE) at the University of Minnesota, recently conducted a study to measure how increasing harvest frequency with existing cropland could significantly increase global food production.