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World Service,27 Mar 2007,22 mins

Feeding the World, Growing Pains, Part One

The Wednesday Documentary

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Charting the recent history of food production. Examining the so-called "Green Revolution" of the 1960s and 70s, that transformed Asian and Latin American crop yields in particular.

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