Food and Population: Beyond Five Billion.

Autor/in	Hendry, Peter
Institution	Population Reference Bureau, Inc., Washington, DC.
Titel	Food and Population: Beyond Five Billion.
Quelle	43 (1988) 2, (45 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Agricultural Personnel; Agricultural Production; Developed Nations; Developing Nations; Land Use; Natural Resources; Nutrition; Population Distribution; Population Education; Population Growth; Poverty + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Agriculture; Production; Landwirtschaft; Produktion; Agrarproduktion; Landwirtschaftliche Produktion; Developed countries; Industriestaat; Industrieland; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Bodennutzung; Natural Ressource; Natürliche Ressource; Ernährung; Demographical distribution; Bevölkerungsverteilung; Population increase; Bevölkerungswachstum; Armut
Abstract	The principle cause of hunger and malnutrition is poverty. The extent of popular access to gainful employment, to arable land, to suitable technologies determines nutritional status more than aggregate food production. World food production is rising; but population is also increasing, along with the numbers of those who, either temporarily or chronically, do not have sufficient food, although the proportion of the world's population suffering undernutrition is declining. The developing countries, with about three-quarters of the world's population, account for less than one-half of the production of major food crops. Those nations' per capita food production of 260 kilograms in 1982 was only one-third of that in the developed countries. Yet China and India, the most populous countries in the world, have cut fertility rates and achieved food self-sufficiency. Although production of food staples in North Africa and the Middle East is projected to expand at about the same rate as that of Asia, approximately 2.9 percent annually, a much more rapid rate of population increase will result in only a 0.2 percent annual increase in output per person, compared with a 1.4 percent annual growth rate in Asia. Balancing population, food, and resources for sustained survival is a continual process. Eighty-one references and a list of suggested readings conclude the document. (Author/SM)
Anmerkungen	Population Reference Bureau, Inc., Circulation Department, 777 14th Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20005 ($5.00).
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01