The Eater of Tomorrow: What Slow Food, Locavores and Climate Change Mean for the Instant Noodle Industry

Brian HalweilEditor and Publisher, Edible magazines. Senior Fellow, Worldwatch Institute.

Courtesy of Bernard Pollack, Nourishing the Planet.

Courtesy of World Agroforestry Center.

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Farmers as a percent of the total U.S. population

Source: Compiled using data from Census of Agriculture, Census of Population, Census of the United States, Historical Census of the United States

Percent of Farmers