Background Famine, disease, and social unrest. For centuries these have been the inevitable result of societies who were unable to reliably produce and protect their food supply. 20th and 21st century technology, though, have—for the first time in history—enabled humans to grow plentiful amounts of food, avoid crop failures, and efficiently deliver it to market. Although hunger continues to be a problem for a significant part of the human populat

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