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technical issues. To discuss the balance between two variables requires 

 discussion of both. The study needs to deal with food, its availability, 

 the qualities of foods req^uired, and the technologies related to food 

 production and distribution. It needs also to deal with population 

 growth, the technology of birth limitation, and the motivations neces- 

 sary to forestall the increasingly rapid expansion of population. 

 And finally, the study must be concerned with the orgamzational 

 concepts, plans, programs, and international arrangemente to operate 

 on these variables. 



The technologies of food availability and birth control are discussed 

 sufficiently to show their technical feasibility and to make it clear that 

 the problem lies elsewhere. On the other hand, the enormous complex- 

 ity of the human side of the problem — social, cultural, economic, reli- 

 gious, administrative, political, diplomatic — can only be touched on in 

 barest outline. Enough is said, however, to demonstrate that the prob- 

 lem is real, but that its dimensions are potentially manageable, given 

 concerted and determined cooperative effort among all nations 

 concerned. 



