During The Past Three Years Spectacular Progress

I Now Say That The World Has The Technology - Either Available Or Well Advanced In The Research Pipeline - To Feed On A Sustainable Basis A Population Of 10 Billion People. The More Pertinent Question Today Is Whether Farmers And Ranchers Will Be Permitted To Use This New Technology? While The Affluent Nations Can Certainly Afford To Adopt Ultra Low-risk Positions, And Pay More For Food Produced By The So-called "organic" Methods, The One Billion Chronically Undernourished People Of The Low Income, Food-deficit Nations Cannot.

The Forgotten World Is Made Up Primarily Of The Developing Nations, Where Most Of The People, Comprising More Than Fifty Percent Of The Total World Population, Live In Poverty, With Hunger As A Constant Companion And Fear Of Famine A Continual Menace.

Man Can And Must Prevent The Tragedy Of Famine In The Future Instead Of Merely Trying With Pious Regret To Salvage The Human Wreckage Of The Famine, As He Has So Often Done In The Past.

Civilization As It Is Known Today Could Not Have Evolved, Nor Can It Survive, Without An Adequate Food Supply.

Man's Survival, From The Time Of Adam And Eve Until The Invention Of Agriculture, Must Have Been Precarious Because Of His Inability To Ensure His Food Supply.