Man, Land and Food: Looking Ahead at World Food Needs (Classic Reprint)

Name: Man, Land and Food: Looking Ahead at World Food Needs (Classic Reprint)
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By Brown, Lester Russell

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Excerpt from Man, Land and Food<br/><br/>The world food problem is closely associated with a rapidly developing population crisis. The food problem is two dimensional. It is partly a production problem, partly a distribution problem. Food supplies in the developed regions are abundant and steadily rising on a per capita basis. In the less developed regions, supplies are inadequate and although grain output per capita is now rising it is still below prewar. The distribution aspects of the food problem give little evidence of immediate improvement. Population in the less developed regions, now totaling billion, is expected to reach nearly 5 billion by the end of the century. If the expected addition of about 3 billion materializes, the less developed regions will need to develop an additional food production capacity equal to current world capacity. Land, the most important ingredient in the agricultural produc tion mix, is in limited supply. Of the earth's land surface of 33 billion acres, less than 3 billion acres actually produces crops in any given year. Ninety-three percent of this area produces edible crops; 71 percent of the total is used to produce grain. Much of the 7 percent in nonfood crops is planted to fibers, mostly cotton.

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Number of Pages:: 168
Release Date:: 2018-09-19
Publication Date:: 2018-09-19
Publisher:: Forgotten Books
Languages:: Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:: 0366805746
Weight:: 381 g

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