Source: Dan Charles, NPR, 8/4/20


There's a common warning about our planet's future: the risk of food shortages. "We've got a growing world and a hungry world. We need to make sure we do our part in helping feed that hungry world," said Kip Tom, a farmer from Indiana who's currently the U.S. ambassador to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, as he closed a panel discussion in 2018. "That is totally the mantra," says Catherine Kling, an economist at Cornell University.

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