Starvation For Millions Seen

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30957, 13 January 1966, Page 11

Starvation For Millions Seen

(A ZP A. Reuter—Copyright > NEW YORK, January 12. Only massive birth control measures, plus greatly increased food production in developing countries, can prevent the “greatest catastrophe of modern times.” the chairman of the International Planned Parenthood Fund. Mr William H. Draper, said today’.

Mr Draper coupled his grim latement with an announce>ent that the fund will ouble its world programmes tis year, and more than ouble them in the next two ears. He said the fund's "pitifully ‘adequate budget" had been olstered as the result of ulti-million-dollar contributes by 23 foundations, cororations, and individuals. This had made it possible 1 dispense birth control serces in many countries to amilies who desperately

■ need and want them.” I Warning that the world was :on a “collision course,” Mr ! Draper said that in 1965, food ‘production increased throughout the world by’ 1 per cent, but the population increased Iby 2 per cent —people grew twice as fast as did the food to feed them. Mr Draper said that if this: trend continued it would mean starvation for “hundreds of millions of people throughout the developing countries during the next decade.”