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Another is the organization of agricultural research in the U.S. that is 

 essentially a state-based structure without the extensive tools for central 

 planning or quality control. That makes it difficult to ensure the essential 

 quality of the entire agriculture R&D effort, to build competence in problems 

 not peculiar to the U.S., or to enable effective planned connections to be 

 established between developing countries and the U.S. on agriculture R&D on 

 any satisfactory scale. 



It is important also to note that improvement in agriculture productivity 

 Is not dependent solely on advances in traditional areas of agriculture; water 

 conservation, climate, energy, pest control, and low-cost technology, and the 

 social sciences related to agricultural economics, innovation, application and 

 distribution, are, inter al ia , of equal importance. The agriculture research 

 agenda must include those areas as well. 



c. Population: 



Closely related to food and agriculture is the global population 

 situation. Though there have been some encouraging declines in fertility in 

 recent years, the growth projections remain at a level bound to cause serious 

 problems of starvation, economic stagnation, and political unrest. 6 The 

 international system has only begun to feel the effects of forced or voluntary 

 migration across borders which is likely to become a major cause of 

 international political instability in the future, in addition to the already 



Another paper in this series (Teitlebaum) is devoted to the 

 population problem in substantial depth. 



