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Eckholm, Erik P. Fertilizer Scarcity and the Food Outlook. [Washington] Overseas 

 Development Council [1974.] 8 p. (Overseas Development Council. Commu- 

 nique on development issues, no. 26) 



"The emergence in the mid-seventies of a global fertiUzer shortage is 

 clouding an already difficult world food outlook, and forcing close scrutiny 

 of global distribution and investment patterns in this key industry." 

 Food Science in Developing Countries: a Selection of Unsolved Problems. Compiled 

 by the Advisory Committee on Technology Innovation of the Board of Science 

 and Technology for International Development, Commission on International 

 Relations. National Research Council. Washington, D.C., National Academy 

 of Sciences, 1974. 79 p. 

 Grant, James P. "Food, Fertilizer, and the New Global Politics of Resource 

 Scarcity. In "Adjusting to Scarcity." Philadelphia, American Academy of 

 Political and Social Science, 1975. (Annals, v. 420, July 1975) p. 11-30. 



"Examines how the United States in its role as global food manager 

 contributed significantly through its actions in 1973 and much of 1974 to 

 the crises of themid-1970's which brought to the world double-digit inflation, 

 massive recession, and innumerable premature deaths, and how the World 

 Food Conference marked a sharp turn in United States — and world — policy 

 toward seeking a positive-sum game approach to the food and fertilizer 

 problems — -an approach by which all principal parties might gain." 

 Green, Stephen K. United States Agricultural Policy and World Food Production. 

 Discussion Paper No. 3, C/75-12, April 1975. Center for International Studies, 

 Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 163 p. Available from the State Dept. 

 as FAR 22020-P. 

 Gurr, Ted R. and Herman Weil. Population Growth and Political Conflict: a Cor- 

 relatiotial Study of 84 Nations. Report supported by the National Science 

 Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation and INR/XR, U.S. Dept. of State, 

 July 1973. 35 p. Available from the State Dept. as FAR 19451-G. 

 Humphrey, Hubert H. Hunger and Diplomacy: a Perspective on the U.S. Role 

 at the World Food Conference. Washington, U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1975. 169 p. 

 At head of title: 94th Cong., 1st sess. Committee print. 

 Johnson, D. Gale. World Agriculture in Disarry. New York, St. Martin's Press, 

 1973. 304 p. 



"A leading American expert digs deeply into the national farm policies 



of the industrial countries to show their costs, effects and contradictions. His 



proposals for national and international measures to improve trade and 



production deal with the long-run conditions rather than current fears of 



global shortage." (1) 



Johnson, D. Gale and John A. Schnittker, eds. U.S. Agriculture in a World Context: 



Policies and Approaches for the Next Decade. New York, Praeger (for the 



Atlantic Council of the U.S.) 1974. 260 p. 



"The policies of other countries as well as the United States are examined, 



and then the editors . . . conclude with a set of proposals for international 



agreements that would make for the better ordering of world agriculture." (1) 



Klatt, W. "Asia After the World Food Conference." International Affairs, v. 



51, no. 3, July 1975: 344-357. 



The author notes that "Whilst the Rome conference dealt at length with 

 the technical, organizational and financial side of the business in hand it 

 paid only scant attention to the institutional aspects of the world food 

 problem." Institutional reforms are needed to cope with the food/population 

 crisis; these are detailed with respect to the situation in Asia. 

 Lee, Everett S. "Population and Scarcitj^ of Food." Ajinals of the American Acad- 

 emy of Political and Social Science, v. 420, July 1975: 1-10. (Research funded 

 by the RANN Program, National Science Foundation.) 



"The world's population is growing at a rate which cannot be sustained. 

 Rapid growth, however, is seldom found outside developing countries, while 

 developed countries are close to zero population growth. Since World War 

 II there have been impressive gains in agricultural productivity in developed 

 countries, but in imderdeveloped countries there has been little or no im- 

 provement in per capita production. Western methods of agriculture, though 

 highly productive in yield per acre or yield per man-hour, are so extravagant 

 in the use of energy that these methods are not transferable. Agricultural 

 methods which are sparing in the use of energy must be developed for all 

 countries, but particularly for undeveloped countries. Still, no foreseeable 



