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The opportunities to use America's strength in science and technology in 

 cooperation with other countries to further U.S. objectives (political and 

 economic as well as scientific) are likely to grow in the coming years. The 

 absence of an adequate institution and policy process to plan and fund these 

 programs, and to engage the competence of the American scientific enterprise, 

 both governmental and private, will be an important issue that will have to be 

 confronted. 



In 1978, the Administration proposed the creation of a new agency — The 

 Institute for Scientific and Technological Cooperation ( ISTC) — designed to 

 correct some of these institutional and process deficiencies. The Congress 

 authorized the ISTC, but did not fund It. The problem remains. (Additional 

 discussion will be found in the last section of this paper.) 



b. Food and Agriculture: 



Some scientific and technological Issues within the context of North/South 

 relations stand out in their importance and in the likelihood they will or 

 should be the focus of much greater attention in the next quinquennium in the 

 U.S. One of these is food and agriculture because of its fundamental nature 

 in the development process, and the great concern that increases in 

 agricultural productivity will not keep pace with the growth of population 

 that already includes several hundreds of millions chronically 

 malnourished.* It is estimated that food production nust increase at least 



^Another paper in this series (S. Wittwer) is devoted exclusively 

 to U.S. agriculture in the context of global needs. 



