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...Conference is a serious effort to keep the system going as it is; a United Nations hope that some kink of dialogue can occur between Western and non-Western elites. Its results can at best only stem tides of hunger, joblessness, malnutrition, and the institutional paralysis that are the fruits of development to this point for the poor. There is a difference that can be made however, and an alternative future that can be shared more equally with the Third World. Perhaps, if the Food Conference helps Americans to see this necessity, it will have proven useful at least...
...world's food supply were evenly divided among the planet's inhabitants, hunger might be curbed for several decades. But it is not likely that wealthy nations will reduce their living standards to help the L.D.C.s. For example, Americans will not eagerly reduce the 1.3 million tons of fertilizer they spread each year on lawns, golf courses and cemeteries; that amount would produce enough extra grain in the L.D.C.s to feed about 65 million people...
Even the Chinese success is not complete. According to U.N. estimates, Chinese get only 91% of their caloric requirements; a major crop failure could trigger widespread hunger. At best, the Chinese are buying time during which population growth can be checked. Chinese families are encouraged to have no more than two children if they live in the city and three if they live in the countryside...
...maximum exploitation of known farming techniques, nor anticipated scientific breakthroughs can win what Rural Economies Expert Egbert deVries calls the "stork-farmer race." Unless the experts are underestimating the potential for new discoveries in food production, population control is the sine qua non for solving the problem of world hunger...
...programs discussed at the Food Conference could at best give the L.D.C.s some more time-but not much-to control their birth rates. To head off still more hunger in the meantime, they will need much help from wealthy nations. Such aid may become quite selective. In the West, there is increasing talk of triage,* a common-sense if callous concept that teaches that when resources are scarce, they must be used where they will do most good. Thus in the future, if the U.S. considers building a fertilizer plant or a research lab in a developing country, Washington will...