Word: economists
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...financial aid from the wealthy industrial and oil-exporting states to help the 100 poorest nations increase their own food output. Also certain to be discussed is the critical problem of curtailing births. This is urgently needed to avoid fulfilling the nightmare of Parson Thomas Malthus, the English economist who predicted nearly two centuries ago that population would outrun man's capacity to produce food...
...years ago, they did not slaughter cattle to conserve grain (as they had done in 1963), but instead they imported 28 million tons of corn, wheat and soybeans. So long as the industrial nations continue to favor meat over direct grain consumption, says Sylvan Wittwer, Michigan State University agricultural economist, "the sky is the limit for food demand...
...growing demand in both industrial and developing countries has been satisfied for the past quarter-century by surpluses harvested in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Argentina and the U.S. Indeed, America "is the principal and residual supplier of grain to the world," explains Willard Cochrane, a University of Minnesota agricultural economist. "It is the country to which all countries come when they are short." This year, despite the recent restrictions on sales abroad, the U.S. will probably export about 41% of its crop-at least 82 million tons of wheat, soybeans, corn and sorghum, valued at about $17 billion. This...
Stanislous Menshikov, a Soviet economist who is working for the United Nations, visited here with several members of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, including the director of the Institute of Mathematics and Economics...
...three agencies that sponsored study - the President's Council on Quality, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Housing and Urban Development - carefully avoid advocating one type of development over another. Indeed says Edwin Clark, the CEQ economist who organized the study, "a lot of people still think that low-density housing is environmentally and socially preferable to the alternatives." But by laying out the relative costs of the various developments, the report allows planners, politicians and citizens to make intelligent choices about how their communities should grow...