Archive Report
Archive Report
Agriculturla Dilemmas in the West
Mounting farm surpluses in the Industrialized countries of the free world belie the gloomy assertion of Malthus that “The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man.”1 The United States, Canada, Western Europe and Oceania together produce more basic foodstuffs than their combined populations can consume. On the other hand, agricultural output of the Communist countries and of the less developed countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America is generally inadequate. Per capita food consumption in the less developed countries is only about 40 per cent of that in the West. Expanded production and expanded trade in agricultural products could theoretically right the balance between food-surplus and food-deficit regions. It is ...