This Is A Basic Problem, To Feed

There Can Be No Permanent Progress In The Battle Against Hunger Until The Agencies That Fight For Increased Food Production And Those That Fight For Population Control Unite In A Common Effort.

Almost Certainly, However, The First Essential Component Of Social Justice Is Adequate Food For All Mankind.

I Now Say That The World Has The Technology - Either Available Or Well Advanced In The Research Pipeline - To Feed On A Sustainable Basis A Population Of 10 Billion People. The More Pertinent Question Today Is Whether Farmers And Ranchers Will Be Permitted To Use This New Technology? While The Affluent Nations Can Certainly Afford To Adopt Ultra Low-risk Positions, And Pay More For Food Produced By The So-called "organic" Methods, The One Billion Chronically Undernourished People Of The Low Income, Food-deficit Nations Cannot.

Man's Survival, From The Time Of Adam And Eve Until The Invention Of Agriculture, Must Have Been Precarious Because Of His Inability To Ensure His Food Supply.

Contrasting Sharply, In The Developing Countries Represented By India, Pakistan, And Most Of The Countries In Asia And Africa, Seventy To Eighty Percent Of The Population Is Engaged In Agriculture, Mostly At The Subsistence Level.