"What is required to meet the challenge of feeding a growing population in a warming world is to boost yield through highly sophisticated land management with precision irrigation and fertilization methods," said Bruce Kahn, Deutsche Bank senior investment analyst and a graduate of UW-Madison's Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies.
The report identifies strategies for increasing global agricultural production that include using technologies ranging from geographic information systems and global analytical maps to improve irrigation and fertilization to investing private capital in better training farmers. The report depended on an array of global agricultural analytical tools, maps, models and databases developed at the Nelson Institute's Center for Sustainability and the Global Environment.
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