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"Looking at wheat, rice and maize yields around the world, IFPRI researchers have found that drought tolerance technologies for rain-fed agriculture would increase maize output by 27 percent,

wheat output by 30 percent and rice output by 10 percent by 2050, assuming farmers fully adopt the technology over a 30-year period.

Integrated soil fertility management--a term for a variety of nonchemical practices that raise the nutrient levels of soils--could raise maize output by up to 50 percent,

rice output by 30 percent and wheat output by 20 percent. Nitrogen-use efficiency introduced through breeding

rice yields by 12 percent and wheat yields by 19 percent. Climate change could send prices soaring Under climate change scenarios up to 2050,

maize prices could shoot up 90 percent, rice by 65 percent and wheat by 70 percent,

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cereal and calories per capita also skyrocketed. The world population of three billion that had arrived by 1960 gave way to the industrialized agriculture that defines food production today.

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