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Table 1. Population growth
and food production.
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Year |
Author |
Essay/Report
|
Remark |
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1798 |
Thomas Malthus |
Essay
on the Principles of Population |
Proposes that human fertility
would outstrip human ability to produce enough food |
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1972 |
Club of Rome |
The
Limits to Growth |
Mass starvation could
result from unchecked growth |
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1983 |
Amaryta Sen |
Essay
on Entitlement and Deprivation |
Poverty, not shortage
of physical food, is the cause of hunger |
|
1990 |
P.R. and A.H. Ehrlich |
The
Population Explosion |
Focus on population problems
vis-à-vis food availability and production |
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1996 |
World Bank |
Food
Security for the World |
Solution to hunger is
distribution of purchasing power to the poor |
|
2000 |
Jonathan Latham |
"More
Food Means Less Hunger" |
"There's enough food
for all, but the poor cannot afford to buy it". |
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