ABSTRACT
In the past thirty years, considerable progress has been accomplished in the agriculture of developing countries. The so called "green revolution" has been able to increase the food production in these countries. As is well known, however, the food problem of the developing countries is far from being solved, because it does not depend only on the improvement of the agricultural production. The "green revolution" has been achieved by an appreciable increase in the energy consumption for agriculture. The fuelwood crisis is now very much apparent in the rural areas of developing countries and stems from both rural consumption itself and from the growing needs of many cities. The problem of the interaction between energy and agriculture is therefore a complex one. In many countries, agriculture is being developed as if energy were still a cheap commodity. Energy planning is done independently of the other socio-economic sectors, without paying attention to negative evolution of the world food market.
