Each year millions of acres of the world's farmland are lost to the spread of cities and suburbs, highway and airport construction and shopping centers. In Canada, most of the land taken over by urban sprawl came from the best cropland. Even in the Third World or developing count

ries, land conversion is a serious problem; this is because the population increases in such countries are comparatively great and the growing number of people need more land to live on. Increases in food supply cannot keep up with rapid increases in population. In other words, the world population could outstrip its ability to feed itself.

The attention to equity, to agriculture and to population control has reduced the threat of famine. In India, the introduction of high yield crop varieties has greatly increased food production though malnutrition still remains prevalent. In the early 1990's, the world was producing more than adequate food for the billions of people on the planet and it was said to be capable of growing enough to feed the population for the fir

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