The world food problem, 1950-1980.

Abstract

Both food production and food consumption changed dramatically between 1950 and 1980. The population of the developing countries nearly doubled but world food output doubled too. In 1980 some estimates put numbers of those still hungry as high as 1500 million. What went wrong? Why is it, for example, that many of the worst affected countries now were food exporters then? Why should there be hunger in one part of the world while in another millions of tons freeze or rot? Searches for the causes among the mass of factors, political, demographic, economic and social, agricultural, climatic, giving separate attention to the major problem areas: Africa, Latin America and Asia. Shows how, why and where food production has or has not increased and how the many attendant difficulties of policy, environment and technology have or have not been tackled. In doing so, suggests what is required in order to reduce poverty and hardship, and to come closer to achieving an end to hunger.- Publisher