"**By 1984 the country abolished urban food rationing, and by the year 2000 its average daily per capita food supply was higher than [[Japan]]’s**. The only way to make this happen was by breaking the country’s nitrogen barrier and raising the annual grain harvest to more than 650 million tons a year." ([Location 1675](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08SGC3TD3&location=1675)) --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[nitrogen]], [[food-production]], [[food-security]], [[demographics]], [[ammonia]], **Source** -- [[202412030828 - B - How the World Really Works]]