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Abstract
The world's population in the last half of the 21 st century
will be huge, likely double the current 5.5 billion, entailing a
tremendous increase in food needs. However, due to past
degradation of resources, unpredictability of technological
progress, vicissitudes of climate, and inadequate incomes,
many of these people may be hungry, especially in the less
developed areas of the world where high population growth
rates will still continue well into the coming century. Therefore,
now is the time for a renewed concern about food
security for all people. Major attention should particularly
be directed to the currently food-short low income countries,
which need to increase their food production and
improve its distribution. And international negotiations like
the current GATT negotiations should explicitly focus on
the food security needs of these countries.