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totally new situation, inasmuch at the U.S* program is grounded, 

 ; legi^y and morally, on the principle of free choice. Again, this eyen- 

 ' tuality 18 one for which the United States should not be completely 



unprepajred. 

 1 The one conclusion to which the evidence points most insistently is 

 'that the food/people ^^^^ cannot be considered in isolation* 



It is, rather, aii integral part of the total development process, and 

 beyond that a feature of a matunng world. Even if the Green Bevolu- 

 ' tion is successful in feeding a /vastly increased population, develop- 

 ' miont V!ll not go forward. uid living standards will only decline if 

 population growth is not MectiV^y checked. For population is even 

 'inore intractttt^ a problem) than food supply. All phases of develo^- 

 \Btoht ai^ retarded as long aa expanding population eats into economic 

 ' ^^rowth. Inveaiment is held back <^ channeled into unproductive areas. 

 Job opportunities are not created, and unemployment or underemploy- 

 ment spreads. Social misery gcMitinues unchecKed^ and populations — 

 iniral ' and \u:ba^r-b6come inor^ao^ to appeals to 



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' The final result of the inteniatiohal campaign to bring food and 

 ««ppt^atk>n into balance in the LDCs— in SMoix a way that economic 

 development oin go fcarward, and an acceptable level of human wel- 

 fare can be achieved and sustained — cannot be foreseen. Certainly the 

 4^alleiige is^aa difficult ad any ever faced by man ; it calls for the care- 

 ful mi^oagement of a complex interaction of scientific knowledge* di- 

 plomacy, and aocial en^eeriiig. At the beginning of the decade oi the 

 iidTOs, tnft ia^ue^^is very much in doubt. In the years ahead, the extent 

 Mfd cnaractet of thi^ U.S. effort can have a crucial eff^ for go^ or ill. 



