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. Staple crops like beans: Ibid.
3. tractors sat idle: Raj Patel, “What Cuba Can Teach Us about Food
and Climate Change,” Slate, April , 0 , http://www.slate.com/articles/
health_and_science/future_tense/ 0 / 04 /agro_ecology_lessons_from_cuba
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4. average Cuban lost twenty pounds: Patel, “What Cuba Can Teach
Us.”
. to feed a growing population: Charles Godfray et al., “Food Security:
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0 0 ): 8 – 8 , http://science.sciencemag.org/content/ 3 7 / 967 / 8 .full; Nikos
Alexandratos et al., “World Agriculture: Towards 030 / 0 0 ,” Food and Agri-
culture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), June 006 , http://www
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6. reach 9.8 billion people: Department of Economic and Social Af-
fairs, “World Population Projected to Reach 9. 8 Billion in 0 0 , and . Bil-
lion in 00 ,” United Nations, June , 0 7 , https://www.un.org/develop
ment/desa/en/news/population/world-population-prospects- 0 7 .html.
7. images of starving children: World Health Organization (WHO),
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int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs 3 /en/.
8. one-third to one-half of food: FAO, “Food Wastage Footprint Im-
pacts on Natural Resources, Summary Report,” 0 3 , http://www.fao.org/do
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9. up to 40 percent is never eaten: Jean Buzby, Hodan Wells, and Jeff-
rey Hyman, “The Estimated Amount, Value, and Calories of Postharvest
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0. energy harvested from cropland: Emily Cassidy et al., “Redefining Ag-
ricultural Yields: From Tonnes to People Nourished Per Hectare,” Environ-