DR. CASE REVIEWS 

 WORLD FOOD NEEDS 



HOME-PRODUCED food in Europe is 

 estimated to be at least 25 per cent 

 less than in prewar years; yet if food 

 ^^^^^^^^^^ imports to Europe 

 ^^^^r^^^^H equal prewar im- 

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 ^^^^■^ X' ^1 person should re- 

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 Dr. C<ue turned from Europe. 



For the past year Dr. Case has been 

 on leave of absence as head of the de- 

 partment of agricultural economics at 

 the University and has been in London 

 and Europe serving with the United Na- 

 tions Relief and Rehabilitation Adminis- 

 tration. He served as executive chair- 



man of a working committee to deter- 

 mine the home-produced food supplies 

 in European countries for 1945. Serv- 

 ing with him were representatives of the 

 British Ministry of Food, American 

 agencies, representatives of the various 

 European countries and the allied army 

 and UNRRA. 



Dr. Case asserted that if the average 

 European received 80 per cent of his 

 prewar food supply, there would be no 

 starvation. However, he pointed out 

 that it would be impossible to distribute 

 food equally either between countries or 

 within any one country. 



He emphasized that the food situa- 

 tion would be critical in some areas 

 where population is dense and where 

 transportation is badly crippled. In the 

 formerly enemy-occupied territory, criti- 

 cal areas include parts of Italy, Greece, 

 Jugoslavia, Rumania, Hungary, Czecho- 

 slovakia and Poland. Likewise the food 

 situation in all of Germany and Austria, 

 with over 75,000,000 people, is desper- 

 ate without large imports, and the ap- 



parent abundance of food found in Ger- 

 many by the allied armies has melted 

 away. The 1945 crop production is 

 much below prewar production, while 

 the population is rapidly increasing from 

 the transplanting of Germans from other 

 countries to a Germany that has been 

 reduced in size. It is estimated that 

 over 12,000,000 will be transplanted 

 into Germany, which helps to relieve 

 some of the other countries. 



Europe, including Great Britain, has 

 about 400,000,000 people, or three times 

 the population of the United States, 

 crowded into an area two-thirds as large. 

 It has always been necessary to import 

 large quantities of food, Case said, add- 

 ing that the problem of relief is further 

 complicated by the most severe drought 

 in 20 years in the entire Mediterranean 

 basin, which has reduced anticipated 

 home production. If Europe is to live 

 as well this year as in prewar years it 

 will require the importation of double 

 the prewar amounts of imported food, 

 or between 40 and 50 million tons of 

 food and feed. 



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