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Reviews obstacles to development in arid and semi-arid lands. Points 

 out that the development of stable agriculture — whether by grazing or by- 

 irrigation — is far more complex than had been thought. 

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 Including Regional and Sectoral Developments; World Economic Survey, 1974 — 

 part two; Current Economic Devslopments. [New York] United Nations, 1975. 

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Contents. — World production. — World trade and payments. — Internal 

 balance. — Outlook. Industrial production/Agricultural production/Inter- 

 national trade/Economic conditions/Energy consumption/Petroleum. 

 United Nations. Population Studies. No. 56. Concise Report on the World Popula- 

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 World Food Conference, Rome, 1974. Report. New York, United Nations, 1975. 

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Food — Conferences/Food supply/Food relief/Agriculture — [Developing 



countriesj/lnternational agricultural cooperation/Agricultural assistance/ 



Hunger/World Food Conference, Rome, 1974. 



"World Food Resources; a Symposium, pt. 1." Current History, v. 68, June 1975: 



whole issue. Seven articles explore population pressures and food resources 



across the world in the first of a two-issue symposium on world resources. 



Contents. — -Food and food policy in the industrial nations, by V. Sorenson 

 and L. Hamm. — The Soviet gram shortage, by D. Johnson. — The Asian 

 dilemma by I. Prybyla. — The land-population balance in Latin America, by 

 N. Sanchez-Albornoz. — Food and population in Africa, by D. Heisel. — 

 World population and food needs tomorrow, by T. Dow, Jr. — The world 

 food problem: possibilities of international action by F. Sanderson. — 

 Readings on food and energy. 

 Wriggins, W. Howard and James F. Buyot, ed. Population, Politics, and the 

 Future of Southern Asia. New York, Columbia University Press, 1974. 402 p. 

 A collection of papers given at a conference on Population, the Human 

 Condition and Politics in Southern Asia, November 1971, at the Southern 

 Asian Institute, Columbia University. The papers deal with the basic demo- 

 graphic changes, processes and effects of urbanization, and the particular 

 problems and opportunities resulting from the increased numbers of youth 

 in the population of the area. 



