World Food Shortages

Archive Report

Food Resources and Threat of Famine

Prospect of Widespread Hunger in the World

Famine on an extensive scale in underdeveloped regions of the world appears unavoidable if the poor nations do not start soon to produce food as fast as they produce people. Food-short countries in Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America are already on the threshold of starvation. They have managed to stave off disaster so far because of huge grain shipments from the United States and a few other food-surplus countries. The vast output of American farms, however, will not be sufficient to avert calamity indefinitely if the world's population continues to soar at present rates.

Conditions of famine will emerge all over the globe within the next five years, economists believe, unless ...

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