Word: feed
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...delegates attending the World Food Conference have little time to lose. With starvation threatening the planet's poorest inhabitants, nearly unparalleled acts of international cooperation are needed to prevent the Malthusian nightmare from becoming a reality. Scientific and technological means exist to feed all the hungry; but the money and the will may not. Precedents are not encouraging. This year three much ballyhooed international gatherings-the U.N. special session on raw materials, the Conference on the Law of the Seas held in Caracas and the World Population Conference in Bucharest-degenerated into forums for political posturing and adjourned without...
...officials expect this to ensure "that minimum food supplies are always available to those needing them on reasonable commercial terms or on grant terms." Because grain stocks are now so depleted, it will probably take at least five years to accumulate the 60 to 70 million tons (enough to feed about 300 million people for one year) that the FAO estimates the food security system will require...
...that money could finance agricultural development programs. It is not likely, however, that nations are ready to start disarming. Even if they did, politicians would soon find their constituents clamoring that almost all the money saved on weapons be spent at home rather than abroad to help poor nations feed themselves. American Consumer Advocate Esther Peterson already questions the wisdom of providing food for hungry countries when the U.S. cost of living continues to climb. Of course, the oil-possessing nations could give and lend much more, but so far they have shared little of their new wealth with...
...likely that wealthy nations will reduce their living standards to help the L.D.C.s. For example, Americans will not eagerly reduce the 1.3 million tons of fertilizer they spread each year on lawns, golf courses and cemeteries; that amount would produce enough extra grain in the L.D.C.s to feed about 65 million people...
...number of mouths the world's farmers feed cannot increase indefinitely. Neither unprecedented generosity by the wealthy nations, nor maximum exploitation of known farming techniques, nor anticipated scientific breakthroughs can win what Rural Economies Expert Egbert deVries calls the "stork-farmer race." Unless the experts are underestimating the potential for new discoveries in food production, population control is the sine qua non for solving the problem of world hunger...