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Despite a late planting and the many logistical problems, yields rose by seventy per cent that year, enough to prevent a general wartime famine. Because of the risk of wartime starvation, he got the go-ahead from both governments to roll it out on a larger scale. The next harvest was even bigger, and the food situation was beginning to come under control. Suddenly there was a shortage of labour to harvest all the crops, and a dearth of everything from jute bags to railcars. Some school buildings had to be closed temporarily, so they could be used for grain storage.
Jonathan Swift1 One winter’s day in 1868 my great-great-great-great grandfather, Eric Norberg, returned to Nätra in northern Ångermanland, Sweden, with several bags of wheat flour in his cart. He came from a family of ‘south carters’, northern farmers who flouted Sweden’s trade barriers and monopolies by going on long trading journeys. Eric Norberg sold country-woven linens in the south of Sweden and returned with salt and cereals. Seldom, though, was his return so longed for as on this occasion.
This was the Green Revolution, which has given poor countries better crops and bigger yields, and has alleviated rural poverty. The average global daily intake of calories was 2,200 in 1961, but has since increased to more than 2,800. Back then, people in fifty-one countries, including Iran, Pakistan, China and Indonesia, consumed less than 2,000 calories per person, per day. By 2013, that number had fallen to just one: Zambia. 27 Around this time, nitrogen fertilizer was introduced broadly and many low- and middle-income countries began to modernize their agricultural sectors.
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