Volume 21, Number 14 · September 19, 1974
Running Out of Food
By Emma Rothschild
In the Human Interest: A Strategy to Stabilize World Population
by Lester R. Brown
Norton, 190 pp., $6.95
One year ago, the director of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, Dr. A. Boerma, wrote that the world had become dangerously dependent on current harvests, and therefore on the weather. Cereal stocks were at the lowest level in twenty years. 'The world food situation,' Boerma wrote, 'is more difficult than at any time since the years immediately following the devastation of the Second World War.'
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