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All impacts to our environment, including agriculture and grassland management, are tied directly or indirectly to world population and its continued growth. It is estimated that it took the world until 1804 to sustain 1 billion people on the planet; then only another century to add 2 billion; then in less than a hundred years over 4 billion more have been added (Anonymous 2009). In 2006, world population was estimated to be increasing by an astonishing 211,000 persons per day and there is no reason to suspect this growth trend has abated.
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Bouton, J.H. (2010). Future Developments and Uses. In: Boller, B., Posselt, U.K., Veronesi, F. (eds) Fodder Crops and Amenity Grasses. Handbook of Plant Breeding, vol 5. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0760-8_9
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