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IN his presidential address to Section M (Agriculture), Dr. G. Scott Robertson compares the present world food problem with that in 1798 when Malthus put forward his theory that populations tend to outrun their means of subsistence. The invention of machinery, the discovery of artificial fertilizers, the development of transport and colonization for a time made his views seem unduly pessimistic and out of date, but two world wars have brought up afresh the problem of attempting to provide adequate food for the peoples of the world.
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Agriculture and the World Food Problem. Nature 162, 406 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162406a0
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