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From the middle of the 1930s to the beginning of the 1960s, population in developing countries increased by nearly 50 per cent. About three-quarters of the cereal supply for this addition to population came from an expansion of the sown area;2 only one-quarter was the result of higher crop yields.3
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Lester R. Brown, Man, Land and Food (U.S. Dept of Agriculture, 1963), and The World Food Budget (U.S. Dept of Agriculture, 1964) p. 47. Area increase is given as 32 per cent, and increase of yields as 8 per cent from 1934–8 to 1960–1. Japan and China are included.
F.A.O., Provisional Indicative Plan for Agricultural Development: Summary and Main Conclusions (1970) p. 23 (page numbers in French edition).
Thorkil Kristensen, The Food Problem of Developing Countries (O.E.C.D., 1969) p. 64.
United Nations, Special Report Prepared by the A.C.C. on the Implications of the ‘Green Revolution’, E/5012, part H (ECOSOC, 1971) p. 13,
In Kenneth Berrill (ed.), Economic Development with Special Reference to East Asia (London: Macmillan, for I.E.A., 1964) pp. 34–5.
In J. C. Caldwell and C. Okonjo (eds.), The Population of Tropical Africa (New York: The Population Council, 1968) pp. 256, 258 (page numbers in French edition).
F.A.O., Provisional Indicative World Plan: A Synthesis, vol. I (1969) p. 49.
Walter H. Pawley, ‘In the Year 2070’, Ceres, IV, 4 (1971) 23.
Dana G. Dalrymple, Survey of Multiple Cropping in Less Developed Nations (U.S. Agency for International Development, 1971) p. 86.
Mogens Boserup, ‘Structure and Take-off’, in W. W. Rostow, The Economics of Take-off into Sustained Growth (London: Macmillan, for I.E.A., 1963) pp. 201–224.
F.A.O., Indicative World Plan: Near East Sub-Regional Study (1966) chap. 1 ; F.A.O., Indicative Plan: Summary, p. 12.
F.A.O., The State of Food and Agriculture (1971) p. 10.
U.S. Department of State, World Food-Population Levels (Report to the President, 1970) pp. 1–3. It is not clear how aid to agriculture is defined in this context.
U.S. Department of State, World Food-Population Levels (Report to the President, 1970), p. 18.
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Boserup, E. (1974). Food Supply and Population in Developing Countries: Present Status and Prospects. In: Islam, N. (eds) Agricultural Policy in Developing Countries. International Economic Association Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-63663-1_6
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