INCREASING WORLD FOOD SUPPLIES: THE ECONOMIC REQUIREMENTS

Increasing homogeneity in global food supplies and the implications for food security.

The narrowing of diversity in crop species contributing to the world's food supplies has been considered a potential threat to food security. However, changes in this diversity have not been quantified globally. We assess trends over the past 50 y in the richness, abundance, and composition of crop species in national food supplies worldwide. Over this period, national per capita food supplies ...

The World's Disparate Food Supplies.

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The part the International Biological Programme will play in increasing world food supplies. Human nutrition in the use and management programme.

Whereas the Human Adaptability Section (HA) is particularly interested in the study of human communities which appear to exist in a state of health on low intakes of essential nutrients and also of the relation of nutrition to physical and mental development, the Use and Management Section (UM) is particularly interested in quality and quantity of plant protein and in the exploitation of indige...

Effects of Aquaculture on World Fish Supplies

The water supplies and water requirements of the modern state.

This is a vast subject and I cannot hope to do more than touch the fringes of it in the short space allotted to me. Clearly, water is the most important and widely used raw material of all. It is vital in every sense of that word. I t is a primary requirement of vegetable life and of animal life (and here I include human life). I need not stress its many domestic uses. Water is essential in pro...