Speaking at a regional conference in Cairo of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, the Director-General of the organisation. Sir John Boyd Orr (above) said that even if world food production regained its prewar level, the world food shortage would not end, because there had been an increase of more than 109,090,000 in the population of the earth since the beginning of the recent war. It would be necessary, he added, to double the production of moot foods to provide sufficient for all peoples.—Special Correspondent, N.Z.F.A., London March 22.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25450, 23 March 1948, Page 5
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90Speaking at a regional conference in Cairo of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, the Director-General of the organisation. Sir John Boyd Orr (above) said that even if world food production regained its prewar level, the world food shortage would not end, because there had been an increase of more than 109,090,000 in the population of the earth since the beginning of the recent war. It would be necessary, he added, to double the production of moot foods to provide sufficient for all peoples.—Special Correspondent, N.Z.F.A., London March 22. Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25450, 23 March 1948, Page 5
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