FOOD AND POPULATION
OUR UNDEVEL OPED WORLD, by L. Dudyi Stamm; Faber and Faber. English price, 1 ‘THIS beok on the world’s peoples, lands and. food supply is based on six lectures delivered as Visiting Professor at Indiana University. The author concludes (1) that under-developed lands also include U.S.A... Canada. Argefttine and Australia; (2) that it is an easier task to increase _ Production ing temperate lands we already understand the vagaries of climate and soils than to look for immediate de-
velopment of trop! cal tands; (3) if man made barriers are removed and if land is used more efficiently the world can easily suppor! a much larger popu lation, These con-* clusicns so. differ ent fram those of numerous recent nrephets. of glonm
must be assessed in the light of the reliability of such data as are available from incomplete world surveys, and reliability may not be high. New Zealand’s "potential population supportable from (its) land resources" is given as over 19 millions, an estimate .derived from the over 19 million acres of "improved farmland." How this figure is arrived at, and to what extent this area is improved or further improvable the author does not say, and probably only guesses. __
L.J.
W.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 741, 25 September 1953, Page 14
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204FOOD AND POPULATION New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 741, 25 September 1953, Page 14
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