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Tuesday, November 12, 1974
University Daily Kansan
U.S. food consumption too high,prof says...
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Agriculture always has been dependent upon the weather, and even with advances brought by science and industry, most of the crop remains ultimately at the mercy of nature.
Precipitation and temperature patterns in geographic regions can be projected over several decades, said Joe Eagleman, associate professor of geography. He said that in the American Midwest, for example, there are about 150 meters of low rainfall about every 20 years.
"The pattern of dry years in the 1936 and
the 1940s was a backward back to
the 19th century," Eugeneham
There also are longer climatic cycles that take centuries to complete, he said. Some scientists believe the world is in a period of rising temperatures because of natural
causes and man's effect upon the environment, he said.
"We know that some measures of Antarctic temperature are changing and that black coal dust projected over the Artic ice cap will cause it to melt, but we just aren't certain of the effect this will have on all weather patterns," Eaglenn said.
Unfavorable weather that has produced floods and drought, along with world inflation and the population explosion, have caused a critical food shortage in portions of India and Bangladesh, said Kishan Khanna, professor of political science and a native of Bombay.
India is a critical area in the world food problem because its population exceeds that of Africa and South America combined, and because it hasn't achieved self-
sufficiency in agriculture as China has, Khanba said.
The Indian representative at the conference last week laid the major blame for the food shortage in the underdeveloped countries on the former colonial powers. He charged them with perverting the Indian independence movement and colonies to meet their own resource needs. As a result, he said, agricultural self-sufficiency has been difficult to attain.
Khanna said India's government and its socialist land reform policy had also contributed to the food problem. Large tracts of agricultural land have been divided into plots as small as one-tenth of an acre and have been made available to farmers for the hybrid seeds, fertilizer and mechanization essential for increased production, he said.
Most experts agree that the food problem ultimately will be solved only by curtailing population growth. But two decades of government-sponsored birth control programs haven't had an appreciable effect in India. Khamka said that efforts had even been cut back since U.S. financial assistance to India had declined in recent years.
Roy Laird, professor of political science, also approached the food problem from an international perspective. He said that the Soviet Union could more fully exploit its food-producing potential if it would abandon its collectivized agriculture.
Within a few years, Laird said, the USSR should reach its optimum level of capital investment in agriculture because of the structure of its farm system.
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Oil-producing countries propose food aid plan
From the Associated Press
ROME—oil-producing countries proposed yesterday to set up a fund to develop food production in needy countries in a move viewed by World Food Conference officials as a major breakthrough. The oil countries made the plan.
The oil countries made the plan conti-
ngent on the participation of the in-
duralized countries. They set no money investment fund, conference sources said.
U. S. spokesman Edwin Martin called the proposal interesting, but added that Washington would have to be consulted by American delegation made any commitment.
Coverup tape . . .
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office, was to offer Walters the use of his telephone to call Grav.
Asked if he knew personally of any CIA activity that could be compromised, Walters, who had joined the CIA only a month earlier, said, "No, I did not. . . but it seemed conceivable to me Mr. Haldern might have information I did not."
When defense attorneys tried to block a portion of Grav's testimony about his
subsequent meeting with Walters, prosecutor James F. Neal argued that "these are the obstructive words... there is no other way you can show the clear agency from Haldenman to the former President of the United States to Ehrhardt. Walters said that is obstruction. We've got to be able to show the very words that obstructed the FBI investigation for two weeks in this case."
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The increase, worth $175 million, would double the relief under the current Food for Peace Program and raise total U.S. food aid from 3.3 million to 4.3 million tons.
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The United States has strongly insisted at the conference that it is time the oil producers, with their vast new oil income, accept a share of the cost of feeding the
Conference planners said the plan was a major step toward financing the long-term goals of the conference. United Nations planners have estimated investments in poor countries must be tripped to some $5 billion annually by 1980.
President Gerald R. Ford last week asking authority to pledge a one million ton increase in grants of wheat and rice to starving countries.
The official U.S. view is that the conference was not an and pledge body but a team. It is important to understand.
Democratic congressmen mounted pressure on the Ford administration to increase U.S. food aid as a humanitarian censure while the conference is in progress.
At the urging of the Democrats attending
the conference, the U.S. delegation cabled
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U. OF. agriculture, Laird said that the Department of Agriculture had predicted increases of 50 per cent in feed grain production and 40 per cent in soybeans by 1985.
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