WORLD FOOD SUPPLY
Sir,—Sir John Boyd Orr, of UNO, states that, after the present food emergency is passed, the establishment of international food banks is the only way to solve the world problem of famine and surplus. One might reasonably expect better than that from Sir John Orr. An expanding world population pressing hard on its rapidly shrinking food producing areas points irresistibly to. the present system of exploitative farming forced by high costs, as against conservation farming protected by low costs, being the seat of the trouble. To find and adopt a method of inducing soil conservation instead of soil predation should logically follow. The storage of food surpluses can then be achieved in the potential of increased—or at least maintained—fertility of the remaining thin film of the world’s top-soil instead of such escapist devices as merely express Man’s fears for the inevitable consequences of his own folly.—Yours, Y. T. SHAND. June 17, 1946.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24905, 19 June 1946, Page 10
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