Word: foodes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jargon phrase for this is "the revolution of expectations," and it has resulted everywhere in solutions that do not solve. Poorer nations simply eat more, and either cut down on their agricultural exports or import food. Asia, excluding Red China, now imports about 10 million tons of grain a year. But the result is less foreign exchange in the coffers of most Asian nations, and less capital for needed economic development...
What can be done to break this "cycle of poverty"? Among professional students, of the food problem, the fashionable answer is that proposed in Rome last week by Arnold Toynbee: "Conscious efforts to keep the birth rate under control." The catch in birth control, as Toynbee himself admitted, is that "the initiative is in the hands of the world's private citizens," and planners have so far been unable to break down what he regards as a combination of instinct, ignorance, custom and religious belief that keeps the "underprivileged" defiantly reproducing when planners wish they wouldn...
...much of the world is undernourished, why does the U.S. not empty all those shiny storage bins? Why don't other nations, such as Canada and Australia, join in distributing their food surpluses freely to the world's hungry? The U.S. last year sent India 3½ million tons of wheat. Since 1954 the U.S. has furnished such nations as Italy, Tunisia, Korea, India and Formosa with about $1.8 billion worth of food, either as gifts or in return for payment in local currencies...
...represents just about all that can be usefully given away, says a senior U.S. Agriculture Department official. He argues that most poor nations (the polite expression used to be underdeveloped countries, but now planners speak of "emerging peoples") lack the distribution system necessary to get large quantities of free food to the people who need it-partly because their governments have not yet accepted moral responsibility for ensuring that every citizen should get an adequate diet. "And if the U.S. offered to construct such a distribution system," adds the official drily, "I do not think such men as Nehru...
...even if all the U.S.'s anticipated food surplus for 1959 was distributed, it would amount to the equivalent of about two teacups of rice every 17 days for each of the world's undernourished people. A food dole would alleviate but would not remedy the poverty...