ABSTRACT
The lead sentence in an Associated Press story of November 11, 1979, was: "The Third World is moving toward a massive food shortage that could result in 'economic disaster' within 20 years, a United Nations report says." 1 This gloomy projection was a reporter's interpretation of a report presented to the FAO Council by the director general of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Fear was expressed that developing countries would require ever increasing grain imports and that the cost of these imports would become a burden that many low-income countries could not bear.
