To Feed this World
The Challenge and the Strategy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4121745 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sterling Wortman, Ralph W Cummings (0000-0002-5023-5428) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 177 |
| Publication date | 1979-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Population and Development Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0098-7921 • E-ISSN: 1728-4457 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1972336 |
| OpenAlex | W2071543398 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
A primary component of the solution to the world food problem is for poor countries to get crop and animal production up, and to do so on hundreds of millions of small farms. But production of food in itself is not enough. The hungry have no money, and until their purchasing power is increased, giving them access to food as well as other necessities, there can be no solution to the world food problem. It must be remembered that increasing agricultural productivity and prosperity in the countryside is not a panacea for the economic and social problems of a nation. But rural progress will be crucial to the general development of most nations. Those responsible nationally for establishing goals, allocating resources, and implementing programs of work must achieve a balance among the many competing demands upon national resources. For the first time in history the world now appears to have the capability of dealing effectively with the difficult problems of hunger and poverty. And, while the food--poverty--population problem is massive and complex and will be extremely difficult and time-consuming to resolve, the existence of new capabilities provides a magnificent opportunity, perhaps a fleeting one, to deal with it effectively -more » if governments have the wisdom and the will to act.« less
Agriculture · Basic needs · Business · Developing country · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Market economy · Panacea (medicine) · Political science · Population · Poverty · Production (economics) · Productivity · Prosperity · Purchasing power · Rural area · Standard of living · World population · Agriculture Market Analysis Ukraine · Global Socioeconomic and Political Dynamics · Russia and Soviet political economy
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US Land-Grant Universities in India
The rain forest and the farmer
Policy reform and reform myopia
Solving Africa's food problem
The taro monoculture of central New Guinea
Using an airplane for an ox cart
Hunger
Communication Policies for Population Control
The politics of self-help
Entre o agronegócio e a agroecologia
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1982 - 2024 (43) |
| Highly cited | No |