Excerpt from World Food Situation: Prospects for World Grain Production, Consumption, and TradeThere is great interest in whether the world will be able to produce enough food to sustain likely increases in population and to support desired or satisfactory rates of eco nomic development. This is one of the most complex and important problems facing modern man. A wide variety of factors that affect food production, consumption, and trade must be dealt with simultaneously. These include the natural resources of nations, the science and technology of making resources more produc tive, a wide range of economic and political factors, and the cultural and institutional factors that condition human behavior.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.