ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on science and technology as they relate to these goals, which are by no means easily managed or predictable. The recently released report of the Presidential Commission on World Hunger, for example, implies that the food production situation is worsening, and that we are farther from the goal of reducing hunger and malnutrition. It is the state governments, not the federal government that provides the bulk of the money and human resources, establish their own directions, set their own priorities, develop the most innovative approaches on research frontiers and take the initiative in sponsoring foreign agricultural development programs. Through biological research, we can take steps toward enabling plants and food animals to use present environmental resources more effectively. Developing nations can share in the benefits of the new technologies we have already discussed improved plant and animal genetics, increased photosynthetic efficiency and nitrogen fixation, as well as protection against insects, diseases, weeds and adverse environments.
