The health of agriculture varies from robust to moribund. The developed world struggles with diseases of excess nutrition, while developing nations deal with millions of deaths annually from starvation. The world has the capacity to provide enough food for all of its inhabitants, but individual productivity, local politics and structures, national priorities and interconnections, and international trade patterns make distribution inequitable, difficult, and sometimes dangerous and ineffective.
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Simpson, W. M. (2006). The Agricultural Environment. In Agricultural Medicine (pp. 1–8). Springer New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-30105-4_1
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