The world food crisis

Abstract

Mankind is facing a situation unprecedented in history. The world's population is increasing by close to eighty million a year. This is equivalent to a new Europe each sixth year, and a new United States in less than three years. Asia is adding the present population of Japan each second year. Latin America is, however, growing most rapidly. Brazil is currently increasing with more people per year than the USSR, Mexico with more than the US. The 24 million of Colombia are adding per year five times more people (800,000) than the United Kingdom (160,000). So are Egypt's 37 million.

Citation

Borgstrom, G. (1975), "The world food crisis", Nutrition & Food Science, Vol. 75 No. 1, pp. 5-7. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb058607