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Abstract
The primary purpose of the seminar on Population and Food and Agricultural
Development convened in December 1975 in Rome by the IAAE, in co-operation
with F AO and UNFPA, was to examine key issues which arose at the present time
in the relationship between food production and population. Profiting from the
global assessments and the recommendations made by the World Population
Conference in Bucharest in August 1974, and the World Food Conference in
Rome in November 1974, the seminar sought to underline the basic issues and the
priority areas of study with a view to assisting agricultural economists to make a
fuller contribution towards the solution of the world population and food crisis.
Beside the proposals of the two world conferences, the seminar had before it six
country studies (Brazil, Yugoslavia, the Republic of Korea, Indonesia, India and
Kenya) and twenty-seven papers by individual authors. These studies and papers
have been since edited by the Chairman of the IAAE Committee on Population and
Food, Dr Douglas Ensminger, in a volume entitled Food Enough or Starvation for
Millions. An official report on the seminar has been already presented by the
FAO Secretariat. In supplementing this report, the present paper draws attention
selectively to the critical problems identified and approaches to solutions suggested
in the course of discussions in the Rome seminar.