WORLD’S POPULATION OUTPACING FOOD PRODUCTION ?
(Rec. 6.30). LONDON, February 3. The worlds population had increased bv more than one hundred million since the beginning of the war Sir John Boyd Orr, DirectorGeneral of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, told the Near East Regional Food Conference in Cairo yesterday. . ‘‘This population increase, with a decrease in fertile land, is as great a threat to human society as the atomic bomb”, Sir John added, according to the Daily Telegraphs Cairo correspondent. The time had passed, Sir John said, for recommendations and pious resolutions, and the time for action had come. The world’s population was steadily increasing, he pointed out, and, in the next 25 years, the earth would have to double its production of most foods to provide sufficient for all of its inhabitants.
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Grey River Argus, 4 February 1948, Page 5
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