European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 01, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pago 16 the stars and stripes wednesday May i 1968 into nitwit said Bof Fao. Mayto a before trends by Nick Stavriotis staff  exp hts Are substantially loss optimistic about food production now than they were a few years ago and they predict the world is headed toward famine before 1980. The problem can be simply stated the less developed world containing 22 billion of the world s 3.3 billion people is losing the capacity to feed  h. Brown administrator for the . International agricultural develop ment service warned. For nearly a decade now the Yap be tween world food demand and world Foo production has been widening la thab Sohi Tely and  the food and agricultural organi a Tion Fao recently retried there has been no gain in world per capita Foo production since 1958." meanwhile. Fao warns world Popula Tion is growing at the unprecedented ale of one million and a Quarter a  the crisis of too Many people and not enough food now threatens to explode disaster of unprecedented mass. Within the next 35 years r. Sen former director general. In testimony before the United nations population commission Large scale famines which prove beyond control will begin Pear in some parts of the worldi9so. Sen warned if present continue. We face chaos he said not Only the form of hunger poverty fear and disease but of bitterness conflict and violence that will overflow every fron tier. We Are in fact already heading into in testimony presented to the us. Senate subcommittee on foreign eco nomic policy. Brown stated that the world outside North America is Besom ing increasingly More dependent on North America for its food. Thirty years ago Brown said the less developed regions of Africa Asia and latin America exported 11 million tons of Grain yearly to the developed countries. In the intervening years the now has been dramatically reversed Tel w the regions imported closet Al million tons. The equivalent of one fourth of the a Law u crop was Shipp a to India alone he said. Furthermore the demand for food in he hungry countries is accelerating within the next 15 years. Brown said the world must prepare to feed a additional one billion people four fifths of whom will be added in the less developed countries. Where food is already in critically Short Supply " if the widening food Gap is not eased said Brown the agricultural exporters of the developed nations could eventually face an impossible  sen and other world authorities agree that until now widespread famine in developing countries has been kept at Bay by food imports much of which came from North american surpluses now at the vanishing Point. Where Only a few years ago the world was plagued with burdensome surpluses of Grain wheat Rice and feed grains today there Are no surpluses of any major food commodities in the . Or anywhere else in the world brow said. . Secretary of agriculture Orville Freeman warned that in a world with out surpluses food is never a free  in "famine1975," authors William and Paul paddock predict that the future of much of latin America Africa and Asia  fated to include a mounting increase of civil tensions riots Anil Mili tary coups d eat As the growing Scarcity of food forces prices higher  . Agricultural authorities already Specter of famine casts grim Shadow on 1980 too Many people too Little food May cause Large scale famines in some parts of the world before 1980. Point out that most of the available Grain in the world Market is going to those nations which can afford it not tothe Low income nations with the great est needs. In 196fi, the . Sent food Aid to 110 countries and dependencies. Massive . Food Aid shipments since 1954 have amounted to More than $15 billion mostly on a Giveaway basis. Brown told the Senate that it is now no longer possible to prevent famine through Charity with mercy shipments of our surplus farm commodities. The phenomenon he said  far too widely dispersed the numbers of # face chaos. Not Only in Lle form of hunger poverty fear and disease but of bitterness conflict and violence thai ill overflow every frontier., " felted too Large to be so  what . Resources Are available Are already regarded by Many As being spread so thin that no single country can be helped beyond the self sufficiency Barrier. Can the less developed countries re gain the capacity to feed themselves Fao statistics stress that if food production is to keep Only slightly ahead of the population Rise the annual aver age increase must reach at least 3 per cent. Sen Points out that this is so far beyond recent achievements and that itis Clear that Only by the most tremendous efforts on the parts of All nations developed und developing can we Hope to achieve this rate of  the average annual rate of increase in food supplies Durons the lust five years has not exceeded 2.5 per  authorities also agree that population planning on a massive scale is indispensable if any Progress is to Boreali Zed. In latin America As an example creased its total production of food do the last five years but with 25 million More people the average individual had 7 per cent less to eat. In the next 32 years the world s population will double to nearly 7 Hillion people Fao reported. A projected 2 billion or More people will be added in the less developed  authorities agree that it is Al most certain to Widen the already widening Gap Between the hav a and the have  it do so Brown stated the tensions Between Tho two economic areas would be  an Era of rising expectations Brown asked How Long can political coherence Bis maintained in a world i which one third of us worry about our waistlines while Tho other two thirds worry about where their next meal incoming from Chi mar Myrdal. Noted swedish economist said if the problem  t solved in 10 or 20 years hell will have