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in 85% of this supply reaching the table. Unequal distribution of the world's agricultural resources and production have been studied by the FAO. The Far East has more than 507o of the world's population, but it has approximately 15% of the world's agricultural land and less than 30% of the world's agricultural production. Europe, with less than 25% of the world's population, has approximately 20% of the world's agricultural land and 31% of. the agricultural production. Today the highly developed countries of the developing countries. Concern for wide and is reflected in the Freedom from the Food and Agricultural Organization of are concerned with the people feeding the hungry is worldHunger Campaign conducted by the United Nations. Emergency measures are to be commended, but in the long run the developing nations must provide for their own freedom from hunger. This will require a concerted effort on the part of these countries to follow, and perhaps surpass, the example set by the developed countries. Improvement will come about through education, research, and the development of careers in agricultural technology. There must be a closer union of the social, agricultural, and health sciences if the problem of feeding the world is to be solved successfully. The world's food problem is everyone's. Conferences such as this -- people sitting down together to discuss their problems and the means to effect a solution -- are part of the answer. It is within your grasp -- reach for it I REFERENCES: 1. Scrimshaw, Nevin S. 1963) 72-80. "Food". SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN 209:3 (September 2. The Rockefeller Foundation, President's Review, 1963, p. 5-7, 38, and 39. 11-41
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